Re: [HACKERS] Oh oh.... big trouble
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: karl@mcs.net (Karl Denninger)
Cc: hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-03-09T21:58:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> > > Hi again folks. > > Well, this problem just got a lot bigger. > > The previous update that does a sequential scan where it used to (under > 6.2.1) do an index search on the outside condition just showed up in another > process - and caused it to generate a 426MB core image, at which point it > blew chunks. > > Folks, this is a big deal, and may be why some people are seeing problems > with 6.3. If someone doesn't come up with a fix for this pretty quickly > we're going to have to back out 6.3 here entirely. Sounds like a serious problem, but honestly, this is the first problem of this type I have heard about. I am not saying it is not a bug, but I have no other hint as to the cause. -- Bruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 + If your life is a hard drive, | (610) 353-9879(w) + Christ can be your backup. | (610) 853-3000(h)