Re: big pg 6.5 and 7.1 problem in simple application

Aaron Brashears <gila@gila.org> writes:

> We have a simple ad tracking application, which has a (mostly) fixed
> table size where each row represents a particular ad. We have about 70
> rows in the database and use php scripts in apache which connect over
> odbc, read a single row, increment a counter, and update that
> row. We're performing about 30 updates a second and after a few
> minutes the postmaster either hangs or dumps core.

I'd try compiling 7.1 with debugging enabled, and do a GDB backtrace
on your core dumps.  Otherwise it's hard to help you. 

-Doug
-- 
The rain man gave me two cures; he said jump right in,
The first was Texas medicine--the second was just railroad gin,
And like a fool I mixed them, and it strangled up my mind,
Now people just get uglier, and I got no sense of time...          --Dylan