Re: BUG #16104: Invalid DSA Memory Alloc Request in Parallel Hash

On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 05:01:05PM +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 6:32 AM Tomas Vondra
> wrote:
>> The annoying thing is that it's the workers that crash, and the leader
>> failed to notice that, so it was waiting in WaitForParallelWorkersToExit
>> forever. Not sure what the issue is.
>
>That's bad.  Some edge case in
>WaitForBackgroundWorkerShutdown()/GetBackgroundWorkerPid() that is
>b0rked perhaps?  Can you reproduce it, and tell us what the stack
>looks like, maybe on a new thread?

Sure. I'll try reproducing it and get this extra info. I was planning to
do that, but then I lost the data for the report because of a silly
mistake. Early next week, hopefully.

regards

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