Geoffrey wrote:
> We are trying to track down an issue with our PostgreSQL application. We
> are running PostgreSQL 7.4.13 on Red Hat Enterprise ES 3.
>
> We have a situation where the postgres backend process drops core and
> dies. We've tracked this to an unusual situation where a sequence value
> that is being created during the process that is causing the core file
> generation. The thing that is bizarre is that the sequence value skips
> 30+ entries.
>
> How is this even possible? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Why is that bizarre? If in the crashing session 30+ records were
inserted - or more accurately, if nextval() was called 30+ times on that
particular sequence - of course the sequence skips 30+ values. Nothing
strange about that.
The backend crashes from something you do in that session.
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