Re: PANIC :Call AbortTransaction when transaction id is no normal

On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 7:07 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> writes:
> > On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 01:25:19PM +0530, Kuntal Ghosh wrote:
> >> If we fix the issue in this way, we're certainly not going to do all
> >> those portal,locks,memory,resource owner cleanups that are done
> >> inside AbortTransaction() for a normal transaction ID. But, I'm not
> >> sure how relevant those steps are since the database is anyway
> >> shutting down.
>
> > And it is happening in bootstrap, meaning that the data folder is most
> > likely toast, and needs to be reinitialized.
>
> Indeed, initdb is going to remove the data directory if the bootstrap run
> crashes.
>
> But ... that code's been like that for decades and nobody's complained
> before.  Why are we worried about bootstrap's response to signals at all?
>
> +1

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Kuntal Ghosh
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