When I caused a crash during the create_index regression test, recovery hit an assertion failure. Minimal test case:
psql -X <<EOSQL CREATE TABLE t (c text); INSERT INTO t SELECT 'P0123456789abcdef' FROM generate_series(1,1000); INSERT INTO t VALUES ('P0123456789abcdefF'); CREATE INDEX ON t USING spgist (c); EOSQL pg_ctl -m immediate -w restart The log ends with: 29294 2015-07-27 04:41:43.330 GMT LOG: database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress 29294 2015-07-27 04:41:43.330 GMT LOG: redo starts at 0/17A4070 TRAP: FailedAssertion("!(xldata->parentBlk == -1)", File: "spgxlog.c", Line: 338) 29292 2015-07-27 04:41:43.338 GMT LOG: startup process (PID 29294) was terminated by signal 6: Aborted 29292 2015-07-27 04:41:43.338 GMT LOG: aborting startup due to startup process failure REL9_4_STABLE is unaffected. I suspect, but have not checked, that a standby replaying WAL from a cluster running "make installcheck" would observe the same problem. Thanks, nm -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers