Re: Return of the Solaris vacuum polling problem -- anyone remember this?

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-08-16T19:12:08Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> I've also recently heard a report of vacuum hanging on 8.3.x on Solaris
> Sparc. Any chance you can get a backtrace from a build with debug symbols?

The problem is that we haven't been able to reproduce the bug in
testing.  Like I said, it only seems to happen occasionally ... like
maybe once in 10 or 20 (or more?) autovacuums.  We've never been seen it
with a manual vacuum at all.

And we can't rebuild the production servers.

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