Re: [GENERAL] Still big problems with pg_dump! - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Still big problems with pg_dump!
Date
Msg-id 20020917111147.P27778@mail.libertyrms.com
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] Still big problems with pg_dump!  (Wim <wdh@belbone.be>)
List pgsql-admin
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 05:04:23PM +0200, Wim wrote:
>
> SELECT relname FROM pg_class WHERE relname like 'pg_%' AND relkind = 'r';
> gives:
> server closed the connection unexpectedly
>         This probably means the server terminated abnormally
>         before or while processing the request.
> The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Failed.
>
> SELECT relname, relkind from pg_class WHERE relname like 'pg_%';
> produces the same error as above...

That does rather suggest a memory clobber, as Tom suggested.  Wim's
'file postmaster' shows it's a 32-bit binary, though, and I verified
in my notes that the snprintf bug was only in the 64-bit library.

A

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