Re: recovery is stuck when children are not processing SIGQUIT from previous crash

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-11-12T14:35:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>>> strace on the backend processes all showed them waiting at
>>> futex(0x7f1ee5e21c90, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL
>>> Notably, the first argument was the same for all of them.

> Looks like a race condition or lockup in the syslog code.

Hm, why are there two <signal handler> calls in the stack?
The only thing I can think of is that we sent SIGQUIT twice.
That's probably bad --- is there any obvious path through
the postmaster that would do that?

The other thought is that quickdie should block signals before
starting to do anything.

			regards, tom lane