Re: InitBufferPoolAccess crash - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: InitBufferPoolAccess crash
Date
Msg-id 17488.1147208854@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to InitBufferPoolAccess crash  ("Ed L." <pgsql@bluepolka.net>)
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"Ed L." <pgsql@bluepolka.net> writes:
>    from /opt/pgsql/installs/postgresql-7.3.4/bin/postmaster
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x12d288 in InitBufferPoolAccess ()
>    from /opt/pgsql/installs/postgresql-7.3.4/bin/postmaster
> Error accessing memory address 0x0: Invalid argument.

Right offhand I'd imagine that the calloc() call failed and returned
NULL --- leastwise it's hard to see how else that routine could crash.
Could your machine be nearly out of memory?

            regards, tom lane

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