Re: buffer assertion tripping under repeat pgbench load

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: buffer assertion tripping under repeat pgbench load
Date: 2012-12-30 04:37:20
Message-ID: CA+Tgmob6k=X=mgnoYy9Aq8+jDYUBfH_WaDKqn30DkGkh1FZByA@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> It is a strange power of two to be appearing there. I can follow your
> reasoning for why this could be a bit flipping error. There's no sign of
> that elsewhere though, no other crashes under load. I'm using this server
> here because it's worked fine for a while now.

In theory, if this is sufficiently reproducible, could you start
backing up through the commit history 100 or so commits at a time
until you find the culprit? Or use git bisect? It'd be kind of
time-consuming, but...

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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