Tom Lane wrote:
> Milen Evtimov <milen@netinfo.bg> writes:
>
>> After upgrading one of our database servers from 8.1.11 on SLES9 to
>> 8.2.6 on CentOS 5.1, it crashed several times with following errors:
>>
>
>
>> LOG: server process (PID ) was terminated by signal 29
>>
>
> That's pretty odd. Would you confirm what signal 29 is on your machine?
> (On my Fedora 8 box, the numbers are defined in /usr/include/bits/signum.h
> --- it's probably the same on yours.)
>
> Fedora 8 says that 29 is SIGIO a/k/a SIGPOLL, but that doesn't make any
> sense to me --- we don't use any calls that would trigger that.
>
> Is this a locally built copy of Postgres, or an RPM installation?
> If the latter, which RPM exactly?
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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From /usr/include/bits/signum.h
#define SIGPOLL SIGIO /* Pollable event occurred (System V). */
#define SIGIO 29 /* I/O now possible (4.2 BSD). */
and output from kill -l 29 is IO
Postgresql is installed from RPMs taken from official postgresql.org
site - exact version is
postgresql-8.2.6-1PGDG.rhel5.x86_64.
Regards,
Milen
