Re: Peripatus: Can someone look?

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-10-01T15:46:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> writes:
> My Buildfarm animal (peripatus) has been failing check since yesterday.  
> Can someone look at it?

It's been doing this in parallel queries, in v11 and up:

2019-09-29 19:00:15.534 CDT [49513:1] ERROR:  could not open shared memory segment "/PostgreSQL.1225945786": Permission denied
2019-09-29 19:00:15.535 CDT [48596:491] pg_regress/partition_prune ERROR:  parallel worker failed to initialize
2019-09-29 19:00:15.535 CDT [48596:492] pg_regress/partition_prune HINT:  More details may be available in the server log.
2019-09-29 19:00:15.535 CDT [48596:493] pg_regress/partition_prune CONTEXT:  PL/pgSQL function explain_parallel_append(text) line 5 at FOR over EXECUTE statement
2019-09-29 19:00:15.535 CDT [48596:494] pg_regress/partition_prune STATEMENT:  select explain_parallel_append('select avg(ab.a) from ab inner join lprt_a a on ab.a = a.a where a.a in(1, 0, 0)');
2019-09-29 19:00:15.535 CDT [48596:495] pg_regress/partition_prune WARNING:  could not remove shared memory segment "/PostgreSQL.1225945786": Permission denied

which looks like an external problem to me --- certainly, nothing
we changed yesterday would explain it.  Did you change anything
about the system configuration, or do a software update?

			regards, tom lane