Re: tsearch2 and unexpected exists - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Teodor Sigaev
Subject Re: tsearch2 and unexpected exists
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Msg-id 3F572DC5.6040009@sigaev.ru
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In response to tsearch2 and unexpected exists  ("Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>)
Responses Re: tsearch2 and unexpected exists  ("Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>)
Re: tsearch2 and unexpected exists  ("Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>)
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Nigel J. Andrews wrote:
>
> This will be a little vague, it was last night and I can't now do the test in
> that db (see below) so can't give the exact wording.
>
> I seem to remember a report a little while ago about tsearch v2 causing
> unexpected backend exit messages with 7.3.4 and now I'm getting similar
> messages unpredictably and I can't find the thread in the archives either.
>
> What I did was install tsearch2 using share/contrib/tsearch2.sql, which placed
> everything into public schema. Having created the tsvector column in a table
> and populated it I tried running a pretty simple function that queried that
> table (joined with another) using that tsvector column in the where
> clause. This gave the unexpected exits of the backend (only the one for that
> connection not all). The error was something like invalid MemoryContext
> allocation 0. Other attempts gave a large number instead of 0. However, the odd
> thing is that the query from the function that was using tsearch2 worked
> fine when I cut it from the log and pasted it into psql directly.
>
> The function is in plpgsql, this is the stable tarball of tsearch v2 for 7.3.4
> and obviously the server is 7.3.4. All running on Debian linux (woody).
>
> Unfortunately I can't reproduce this problem without reinstalling the db, or
> seeing if createlang will work, since the untsearch2.sql script failed (I was
> trying to reload tsearch2.sql jsut to see) so I foolishly dropped public schema
> since I stupidly thought tsearch was the only thing using it. More importantly
> I don't seem to be able to find the mailing list thread that covered pretty
> much this exact unexpect exit fault. So, can anyone help with a fix,
> explanation or link to the relevent thread please?

Have you a core file, if yes then send gdb output, pls...


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