Re: [PATCHES] Re: [HACKERS] Re: Tuple-valued datums on Alpha (was Re: 7.1 on DEC/Alpha)

[Tom Lane]

"Oliver Elphick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Smart Shutdown request at Thu Dec 28 02:41:49 2000
>> DEBUG:  shutting down
>> FATAL 2:  Checkpoint lock is busy while data base is shutting down
>> Shutdown failed - abort
 
> It's not just on Alpha; I've seen that on my i386 Linux system.

Oooh, that's interesting.  I was just blindly assuming that it was
a problem with the Alpha spinlock code (we've sure heard plenty of
discussion of same).  But maybe there's an actual logic bug in the
checkpoint code.  I don't see one in a quick scan though.

FWIW, I do *not* see this behavior on HPUX.  It seems perfectly
reproducible on the Debian Alpha box.  Is it reproducible on your
i386 box, or only sometimes?

Vadim, any ideas?

                        regards, tom lane