Re: BUG #2013: Assertion Failure

Joel Stevenson wrote:

> This occured during a nightly mainentance run which sets the transaction
> isolation level to SERIALIZABLE, moves records from 3 highly active tables
> to 3 storage tables by creating a temp table and selecting candidate record
> ids into it, then using that list via sub-select for the move ala "insert
> into blah_storage (f1, f2, f3) select f1, f2, f3 from blah_active where f1
> in (select f1 from move_records_tmp)"
>
> After the move a VACUUM FULL ANALYZE is issued.  It appears from the logs
> written by the maintenace script that the assertion failure occured during
> the vacuum.
>
> I will install RC1 and see if it can be reproduced.

Please be sure to also configure with --enable-debug (you obviously
already have --enable-cassert), and get a stack trace ("bt" command in
gdb) if at all possible.  And keep the core dump somewhere safe -- we
will ask you questions about it.

If you already have a core dump, please provide a stack trace.

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