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Re: hung backends stuck in spinlock heavy endless loop

Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>

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From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2015-01-15T23:10:14Z
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
> Running this test on another set of hardware to verify -- if this
> turns out to be a false alarm which it may very well be, I can only
> offer my apologies!  I've never had a new drive fail like that, in
> that manner.  I'll burn the other hardware in overnight and report
> back.

Thanks.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan

Commits

  1. Improve hash_create's API for selecting simple-binary-key hash functions.

  2. Fix WAL-logging of B-tree "unlink halfdead page" operation.

  3. Fix backup-block numbering in redo of b-tree split.

  4. Cleanup of new b-tree page deletion code.

  5. Fix bug in the new B-tree incomplete-split code.

  6. Fix bug in new B-tree page deletion code.

  7. Fix rm_desc routine of b-tree page delete records.

  8. Make the handling of interrupted B-tree page splits more robust.

  9. Fix race condition in B-tree page deletion.