Tom,
Thanks for the hint, and no I wasn't looking in the right place. Here is the backtrace
Dave
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...(no debugging symbols found)...
warning: core file may not match specified executable file.
Core was generated by `/usr/bin/postgres localhost davec ebox VAC'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /lib/libcrypt.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libcrypt.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/libnsl.so.1...done.
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#0 0x40171b80 in strcoll () at strcoll.c:228
228 strcoll.c: No such file or directory.