[Apologies for the delayed response; fighting through a backlog.]
I checked with out DBAs, and they are willing to test it.
By they way, they found that they were getting this on a pg_dump,
too. We will test both failure cases. If the test goes OK, we would
be happy to leave it in production with this patch.
-Kevin
>>> "Qingqing Zhou" <zhouqq@cs.toronto.edu> >>>
"Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote
>
> Would a simple retry loop actually help? It's not clear to me how
> persistent such a failure would be.
>
[with reply to all followup threads] Yeah, this is the key and we
definitely
have no 100% guarantee that several retries will solve the problem -
just as
the situation in pg_unlink/pg_rename. But shall we do something now? If
Kevin could help on testing(you may have to revert the registry changes
:-()
, I would like to send a patch in the retry style.
Regards,
Qingqing
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