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Re: Race conditions with checkpointer and shutdown

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Ashwin Agrawal <aagrawal@pivotal.io>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-04-29T17:50:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Ashwin Agrawal <aagrawal@pivotal.io> writes:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 10:36 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Can you try applying a1a789eb5ac894b4ca4b7742f2dc2d9602116e46
>> to see if it fixes the problem for you?

> Yes, will give it a try on greenplum and report back the result.

> Have we decided if this will be applied to back branches?

My feeling about it is "maybe eventually, but most definitely not
the week before a set of minor releases".  Some positive experience
with Greenplum would help increase confidence in the patch, for sure.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. In walreceiver, don't try to do ereport() in a signal handler.