Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> writes: > The problem is that when a postmaster subprocess is launched, it calls > read_nondefault_variables() very early, before shmem initialization, to > read the non-default config options from the file that postmaster wrote. > When check_XactIsoLevel() calls RecoveryInProgress(), it crashes, > because XLogCtl is NULL.
Hm, how did the same code fail to crash in the postmaster itself, when the postmaster read the setting from postgresql.conf? A larger point is that I think it's broken for any GUC assignment function to be calling something as transient as RecoveryInProgress to start with. We probably ought to re-think the logic, not just band-aid this by having it skip the check when shmem isn't initialized yet. I'm thinking that the check has to occur somewhere outside GUC. regards, tom lane - Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers