Re: sig 6 on postgres server - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: sig 6 on postgres server
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Msg-id 2507.1236048436@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to sig 6 on postgres server  ("Lee, Mija" <mija@scharp.org>)
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"Lee, Mija" <mija@scharp.org> writes:
> Recently I had a postgres instance shut down & restart, and I'm trying
> to understand why. I'm running 8.3.5 on solaris 10, with the data
> directory on a netapp. The postgres log shows an error associated with
> some of the critical application tables not existing, then it was unable
> to write to the log, then a sigabrt.

> cpas 2009-03-02 14:58:34 PSTPANIC:  could not write to log file 93,
> segment 240 at offset 9560064, length 8192: Interrupted system call

EINTR?  Hmm, I wonder if you have the data directory on a "soft" NFS
mount?  We tend not to trust NFS too much at all around here, but if
you have to use it, hard-mount is more reliable than soft.

            regards, tom lane

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