Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88AB22E008D for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:01:14 -0300 (ADT) Received: from developer.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 43989-06 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:01:04 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38CBC2E002D for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:01:05 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m3T614xV025411; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:01:04 -0400 (EDT) To: "Peter Koczan" cc: "pgsql-admin@postgresql.org" Subject: Re: Bus error in postgres 8.3 In-reply-to: <4544e0330804282205odfcac5al6bca78bd27c8751b@mail.gmail.com> References: <4544e0330804282205odfcac5al6bca78bd27c8751b@mail.gmail.com> Comments: In-reply-to "Peter Koczan" message dated "Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:05:11 -0500" Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:01:04 -0400 Message-ID: <25410.1209448864@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200804/274 X-Sequence-Number: 29038 "Peter Koczan" writes: > I'm going to try to force a crash on my test server to see if I can > find out anything more. Does anyone know how to get useful debugging > info at the time of the crash? I don't think I have things set to dump > core anywhere, but that and/or stack traces would be nice (especially > for child processes). Make sure the postmaster is started under ulimit -c unlimited. On a depressingly large fraction of modern platforms, daemons are started with ulimit -c 0 by default :-(. Try putting "ulimit -c unlimited" into your PG init script and restarting. regards, tom lane