Benjamin Smith <lists@benjamindsmith.com> writes:
> Aha, yep. Sorry:
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x000000000043c82c in heap_modifytuple ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0 0x000000000043c82c in heap_modifytuple ()
> #1 0x000000000043c8f5 in slot_getattr ()
> #2 0x000000000047a50a in FormIndexDatum ()
> #3 0x00000000004ebee3 in ExecInsertIndexTuples ()
> #4 0x00000000004e5265 in ExecutorRun ()
> #5 0x0000000000564312 in FreeQueryDesc ()
> #6 0x0000000000565287 in PortalRun ()
> #7 0x0000000000560f8b in pg_parse_query ()
> #8 0x0000000000562e0e in PostgresMain ()
> #9 0x000000000053d316 in ClosePostmasterPorts ()
> #10 0x000000000053ea59 in PostmasterMain ()
> #11 0x00000000005033c3 in main ()
Oh, so this is happening during index entry creation? (The reference to
heap_modifytuple is misleading, but in a debug-symbol-free backend it's
not so surprising.)
This suddenly looks a whole lot like a known bug:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-11/msg01016.php
Which version did you say you were using exactly? That bug is fixed
in 8.1.1 ...
regards, tom lane
