On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinn...@iki.fi> wrote:
>
> Now kill -9 postmaster, and restart. Voila, the page headers are all zeros:
>
> postgres=# select * from page_header(get_raw_page('i_foo', 0));
> lsn | checksum | flags | lower | upper | special | pagesize |
> version |
> prune_xid
>
> -----------+----------+-------+-------+-------+---------+----------+---------+-
> ----------
> 0/1891270 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
> |
> 0
> (1 row)
>
> postgres=# select * from gin_metapage_info(get_raw_page('i_foo',
> 0));ERROR: input page is not a GIN metapage
> DETAIL: Flags 0189, expected 0008
>
> I just pushed a fix for this, but unfortunately it didn't make it
> 9.5alpha1.
Thanks. I think that that fixed it. It survived for over an hour this
time. Then it hit a different problem (apparent deadlock in the LWLock
code, but that is probably a topic for another thread, I'm working on
reproducing it.)
Cheers,
Jeff
