strange segfault with 8.3.8 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Filip Rembiałkowski
Subject strange segfault with 8.3.8
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Msg-id 92869e660912070812s24e64edvcfe3566ad1665e7d@mail.gmail.com
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Responses Re: strange segfault with 8.3.8  (Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
hello,

from kernel log:

Dec  7 07:24:45 nsXXXXXX kernel: postgres[22481]: segfault at 7fda5e1d5000 ip 00007fda604553c3 sp 00007fffe41faf28 error 4 in libc-2.9.so[7fda603d1000+168000]
Dec  7 07:24:45 nsXXXXXX kernel: grsec: From XX.YY.ZZ.51: Segmentation fault occurred at 00007fda5e1d5000 in /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin/postgres[postgres:22481] uid/euid:103/103 gid/egid:114/114, parent /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin/postgres[postgres:29857] uid/euid:103/103 gid/egid:114/114

This is on 8.3.8, latest Ubuntu distribution, server under quite heavy load.

afterwards we had some corrupted pages ("ERROR: compressed data is corrupt").

any clues / directions welcome.



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