Re: Re: Vaccuum Failure w/7.1beta4 on Linux/Sparc -- FALSE ALARM

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Ryan Kirkpatrick <pgsql@rkirkpat.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-03-26T05:16:35Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Ryan Kirkpatrick <pgsql@rkirkpat.net> writes:
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote:
>> While testing some existing database applications on 7.1beta4 on
>> my Sparc 20 running Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, I got the following error on
>> attempting to do a vacuum of a table:
>> 
>> NOTICE:  FlushRelationBuffers(jobs, 1399): block 953 is referenced (private 0, global 1)
>> ERROR! Can't vacuum table Jobs! ERROR:  VACUUM (repair_frag): FlushRelationBuffers returned -2

This is probably explained by the problem we found a few days ago with
BufferSync acquiring locks it shouldn't.

			regards, tom lane