Re: first crash

Thomas T. Thai <tom@minnesota.com>

From: "Tom" <tom@minnesota.com>
To: <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-03-06T21:18:04Z
Lists: pgsql-general
> "Thomas T. Thai" <tom@minnesota.com> writes:
>> I had my first production crash today.
>> PostgreSQL v7.3
>> NetBSD/Alpha 1.6
>
> Why are you not running 7.3.2?

I just loaded up 7.3.2. Will watch it closely to see.

[...]
> chdir(), so it would try to dump core in whatever directory you are in
> when you launch it.  Make sure this directory is writable by postgres,
> or you'll get no core...

I did a find starting at / but no core for postmaster.

> Also, did you look to see if there is anything interesting in the
> postmaster log?  It could be that this was not a core dump but a panic
> exit, in which case the postmaster would have written a complaint to the
> log before exiting.

Unfortunately I didn't run it with the log option on.

--
Thomas