Re: Beta 6 Regression results on Redat 7.0.

Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>

From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-03-20T23:46:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:
> > I'm hoping it was a problem on my machine -- educate me on
> > what caused the error
>
> Well, that's exactly what I'd like to know.  The direct cause of the
> error is that DROP TABLE is finding that some other backend has a
> reference-count hold on a page of the temp table it's trying to drop.
> Since no other backend should be trying to touch this temp table,
> there's something pretty fishy here.
>
> Given that this is a parallel test, you may be looking at a
> low-probability timing-dependent failure.  I'd say set up the machine
> and run repeat tests for an hour or three ... that's what I plan to do
> here.

Okay, I roll'd an RC1 but haven't put it up for FTP yet ... I'll wait for
a few hours to see if anyone can reproduce this, and, if not, put out what
I've rolled ...

say, 00:00AST ...