Re: buildfarm: could not read block 3 in file "base/16384/2662": read only 0 of 8192 bytes

Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-08-11T03:11:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 8:02 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Me too.  I will absolutely not vote to release 11.0 before we've
> solved this ...

I believe that that's the right call, assuming things don't change.

This is spooky in a way that creates a lot of doubts in my mind. I
don't think it's at all advisable to make an executive decision to
release, while still not having the foggiest idea what's really going
on.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan


Commits

  1. Limit depth of forced recursion for CLOBBER_CACHE_RECURSIVELY.

  2. Fix longstanding recursion hazard in sinval message processing.

  3. Fix bugs in vacuum of shared rels, by keeping their relcache entries current.