Re: BUG #8579: CoreDump of background writer process - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

alvherre@2ndquadrant.com wrote:


> I thought we no longer supported QNX ... in fact, I think we removed it before the 8.2 release.  So what's this port
you'reusing?  This probably means a heavily patched source. 

Yes we had to add some patches, but not as much as you are expecting. We were running the 8.3 release with the same
patchesfor a long time without these kinds of troubles. I don't had to add much more patches to get the new release
runningand passing the regression-test successfully . 

Patched Files:

patch-configure
patch-configure.in
patch-contrib_Makefile
patch-src_Makefile.shlib
patch-src_backend_Makefile
patch-src_backend_access_common_reloptions.c
patch-src_backend_libpq_pqsignal.c
patch-src_backend_port_Makefile
patch-src_backend_port_ipc__test.c
patch-src_backend_port_sysv__shmem.c
patch-src_backend_postmaster_postmaster.c
patch-src_backend_replication_libpqwalreceiver_Makefile
patch-src_backend_snowball_Makefile
patch-src_backend_tcop_postgres.c
patch-src_backend_utils_init_postinit.c
patch-src_backend_utils_mb_conversion__procs_proc.mk
patch-src_backend_utils_misc_guc.c
patch-src_backend_utils_misc_ps__status.c
patch-src_bin_pg__dump_pg__backup.h
patch-src_bin_pg__dump_pg__backup__archiver.c
patch-src_bin_pg__dump_pg__backup__archiver.h
patch-src_bin_pg__dump_pg__backup__tar.c
patch-src_bin_pg__dump_pg__dump.c
patch-src_bin_pg__dump_pg__dump.h
patch-src_bin_pg__dump_pg__dumpall.c
patch-src_include_pg__config__manual.h
patch-src_include_regex_regguts.h
patch-src_include_storage_s__lock.h
patch-src_include_tcop_tcopprot.h
patch-src_interfaces_ecpg_ecpglib_misc.c
patch-src_interfaces_ecpg_include_ecpglib.h
patch-src_interfaces_libpq_pqsignal.c
patch-src_pl_plpgsql_src_Makefile
patch-src_port_isinf.c
patch-src_test_regress_pg__regress.c
patch-src_test_regress_resultmap
patch-src_timezone_localtime.c
patch-src_timezone_private.h
patch-src_timezone_strftime.c
patch-src_timezone_zic.c

Files to be added:

GNUmakefile.libpq
contrib_dbmirrorc_AddTrigger.sql
contrib_dbmirrorc_DBMirror.pl
contrib_dbmirrorc_Makefile
contrib_dbmirrorc_MirrorSetup.sql
contrib_dbmirrorc_README.dbmirror
contrib_dbmirrorc_clean__pending.pl
contrib_dbmirrorc_pending.c
contrib_dbmirrorc_slaveDatabase.conf
dynloader-ltdl.h
src_backend_port_dynloader_qnx6.c
src_backend_port_dynloader_qnx6.h
src_backend_port_qnx6_Makefile
src_backend_port_qnx6_shm.c
src_backend_port_qnx6_shm.h
src_include_port_qnx6.h
src_makefiles_Makefile.qnx6
src_template_qnx6



> This is also a bit funny.  Normally each segment is 1GB long, unless you configure it otherwise; this means a segment
hasonly 131072 blocks. 
> But you have at least 149256 blocks here.

These are the changes from postgresql.conf, all other settings are commented-out:

unix_socket_directory = '/bac/sys/data'
tcp_keepalives_idle = 120
max_files_per_process = 200
vacuum_cost_delay = 20ms
checkpoint_segments = 6
log_destination = 'stderr'
logging_collector = on
log_directory = '/bac/sys/log'
log_filename = 'postgresql.log.%a'
log_truncate_on_rotation = on
log_rotation_age = 1d
log_rotation_size = 0
log_min_duration_statement = 60000
log_hostname = on
log_line_prefix = '%a-%d-%h-%p-%t:'
autovacuum = on
search_path = 'public,syscore,systab000,gltcore,glttab001'
bytea_output = 'escape'
datestyle = 'iso, mdy'
lc_messages = 'POSIX'
lc_monetary = 'POSIX'
lc_numeric = 'POSIX'
lc_time = 'POSIX'
max_locks_per_transaction = 100

I hope this helps...

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