Re: pre-existing shared memory block is still in use after crashes

Excerpts from Dave Vitek's message of jue may 06 10:44:34 -0400 2010:
> Hi all,
> 
> Yesterday I ran into two backend crashes and then an autovacuum launcher 
> process crash.  The autovacuum log was:
> LOG:  database system is ready to accept connections
> LOG:  autovacuum launcher process (PID 3788) was terminated by exception 
> 0xC0000142
> HINT:  See C include file "ntstatus.h" for a description of the 
> hexadecimal value.

0xC0000142 is STATUS_DLL_INIT_FAILED

Apparently this can mean insufficient heap space.  I'm not sure if this is a
surprising thing to get during high load.

Not sure what can we do about it.

As for the failed restart, maybe the code that detects a conflicting shared
memory block could use a retry loop somewhere.
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