Re: BUG #5238: frequent signal 11 segfaults - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: BUG #5238: frequent signal 11 segfaults
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Msg-id 25153.1260723491@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: BUG #5238: frequent signal 11 segfaults  (Nagy Daniel <nagy.daniel@telekom.hu>)
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Nagy Daniel <nagy.daniel@telekom.hu> writes:
> I ran "select * from" on both tables. All rows were returned
> successfully, no error logs were produced during the selects.

Well, that would seem to eliminate the initial theory of on-disk
corruption, except that these *other* symptoms that you just mentioned
for the first time look a lot like index corruption.  I concur with
Pavel that intermittent hardware problems are looking more and more
likely.  Try a memory test first --- a patch of bad RAM could easily
produce symptoms like this.

> Apart from that, I think that pg shouldn't crash in case of
> on-disk corruptions, but log an error message instead.

There is very little that software can do to protect itself from
flaky hardware :-(

            regards, tom lane

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