Re: [GENERAL] More details on Database corruption - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Here is a bug report from August.  The bug still exists.

If you remove the DEFAULT's, it does not crash.  If you exit the session
after the UPDATE, and execute SELECT in a new session, it does not crash
and yields the correct results.

The crash happens in the executor, and it clearly shows it getting an
invalid value for the version2 column:

(gdb) print att[3][0]
$12 = {attrelid = 0, attname = {data = "version2", '\000' <repeats 23 times>},  atttypid = 1042, attdisbursion = 0,
attlen= -1, attnum = 4, attnelems = 0,  attcacheoff = -1, atttypmod = 10, attbyval = 0 '\000', attisset = 0 '\000',
attalign= 105 'i', attnotnull = 0 '\000', atthasdef = 0 '\000'}
 
(gdb) print *(struct varlena *)value[3]
$13 = {vl_len = 538976305, vl_dat = " "}

Can anyone suggest a cause?


> Hi,
> 
> I managed to recreate a simple example that's crashing postgres.  I am
> running on a DEC Alpha with Digital Unix Version 4.0d and Postgres
> 3.2.   I tried this example several times, on several databases and it
> crashes every time.  We also re-built Postgres and still did not work.
> Here's the example. Can anybody please help?
> 
> Thank you...
> George K.
> /***** INPUT FILE: hist.sql *******/
> 
> drop table tasks;
> CREATE TABLE tasks (
> task  INT4 NOT NULL,
> job  INT4 NOT NULL,
> Version1 CHAR(6) DEFAULT '',
> Version2 CHAR(6) DEFAULT '',
> Version3 CHAR(6) DEFAULT '',
> Version4 CHAR(6) DEFAULT '',
> Version5 CHAR(6) DEFAULT ''
> );
> 
> INSERT INTO tasks (task, job) VALUES (1, 1);
> select * from tasks;
> update tasks set version1='1',version2='2', version3='3', version4='4',
> version5='5' where task=1;
> select * from tasks;
> 
> 
> /****** OUTPUT FROM pgsql **********/
> test=> \i hist.sql
> drop table tasks;
> DROP
> CREATE TABLE tasks (
> task            INT4 NOT NULL,
> job             INT4 NOT NULL,
> Version1        CHAR(6) DEFAULT '',
> Version2        CHAR(6) DEFAULT '',
> Version3        CHAR(6) DEFAULT '',
> Version4        CHAR(6) DEFAULT '',
> Version5        CHAR(6) DEFAULT ''
> );
> CREATE
> 
> INSERT INTO tasks (task, job) VALUES (1, 1);
> INSERT 4410388 1
> select * from tasks;
> task|job|version1|version2|version3|version4|version5
> ----+---+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------
>    1|  1|        |        |        |        |
> (1 row)
> 
> update tasks set version1='1',version2='2', version3='3', version4='4',
> version5='5' where task=1;
> UPDATE 1
> select * from tasks;
> FATAL:  unrecognized data from the backend.  It probably dumped core.
> FATAL:  unrecognized data from the backend.  It probably dumped core.
> 
> EOF
> test=>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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