Re: Core dump on 7.1.3 on Linux 2.2.19

Dmitry G. Mastrukov Дмитрий Геннадьевич Мастрюков <dmitry@taurussoft.org>

From: "Dmitry G. Mastrukov" Дмитрий Геннадьевич Мастрюков <dmitry@taurussoft.org>
To: Barry Lind <barry@xythos.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-11-06T09:19:43Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Втр, 2001-11-06 at 04:41, Barry Lind wrote:
> On a production server I am getting periodic core dumps from postgres. 
> The server can go for days or weeks fine without any problems, but does 
> dump core every so often.
> 
> It happened to me this afternoon while running a 'vacuum analyze 
> verbose'.  I have attached the stack trace below.  I looked at a core 
> from the vacuum as well as another core file from a prior operation 
> (which wasn't a vacuum) and they had the same stack.  So I don't think 
> this is a vacuum problem.
> 
> Any ideas?  (I intend to rebuild to get some better info in the stack 
> trace, but it may be a while before I get around to that).
> 
I experienced problem with 'vacuum analyze' with postgres 7.1.2 on
glibc-2.2.2. And it was bug in libc. Upgrading to glibc-2.2.3 solved  my
problem.

Regards,
Dmitry