Re: BUG #11807: Postgresql server crashed when running transaction tests - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Federico Campoli
Subject Re: BUG #11807: Postgresql server crashed when running transaction tests
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Msg-id 544FB8E5.2060103@brandwatch.com
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In response to Re: BUG #11807: Postgresql server crashed when running transaction tests  (Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>)
Responses Re: BUG #11807: Postgresql server crashed when running transaction tests  (Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>)
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On 28/10/14 15:30, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 10/28/2014 05:22 PM, bzhao@recognia.com wrote:
>> The following bug has been logged on the website:
>>
>> Bug reference:      11807
>> Logged by:          Bing Zhao
>> Email address:      bzhao@recognia.com
>> PostgreSQL version: 9.2.9
>> Operating system:   CentOS 5.6
>> Description:
>>
>> Recently our database component testing failed, we traced our source code
>> which nothing changed. Dev reported it's working on their dev machine but
>> failed in test environment. The only difference is postgresql server
>> version, dev is running 9.2.8 and test is running 9.2.9.After I
>> downgraded
>> to 9.2.8 in test environment, the test suit works again. See logs and
>> database configuration under.
>
> Unfortunately there isn't any details in the logs that would help
> tracking this down. Can you get a core dump, and from that a backtrace
> using gdb?
>
> What does the test program do? If you can narrow the test case down to a
> small self-contained script and post that, that'd be great.

We had a similar problem.
The query causing the server crash involved a many nested nested loops
in the execution plan.

We downgraded to 9.2.8 which is fine.

I'm still investigating and I'll file a bug report asap.

Cheers
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