On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
>pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org writes:
>> Problem 1: "vacuum messages;" works but "vacuum analyze messages;"
>> kills the backend.
>
>We have absolutely no hope of responding to a bug report with only
>that amount of information. How about a backtrace from the core
>file? How about telling us the schema for the table that's causing
>the problem?
(gdb) bt
#0 0x40269e80 in strcoll () at strcoll.c:228
#1 0x812301a in varstr_cmp ()
#2 0x8123067 in text_cmp ()
#3 0x812309a in text_lt ()
#4 0x8135036 in FunctionCall2 ()
#5 0x80acffd in attr_stats ()
#6 0x80acd19 in analyze_rel ()
#7 0x80a91fe in vac_vacuum ()
#8 0x80a916d in vacuum ()
#9 0x80fc06f in ProcessUtility ()
#10 0x80fa119 in pg_exec_query_string ()
#11 0x80fb02a in PostgresMain ()
#12 0x80e64e8 in DoBackend ()
#13 0x80e60b7 in BackendStartup ()
#14 0x80e52e5 in ServerLoop ()
#15 0x80e4ce6 in PostmasterMain ()
#16 0x80c6818 in main ()
Table "messages"
Attribute | Type | Modifier
mid | integer | not null default nextval('msg_id'::text)
lid | integer |
sender | text |
date | timestamp |
subject | text |
body | text |
Index: messages_index
Index "messages_index"
Attribute | Type
-----------+---------
lid | integer
mid | integer
btree
select count(*) from messages;
count
-------
18667
select max(length(body)) from messages;
max
-------
92148
(1 row)
This is from the stderr of the backend: (it dies on "messages" even
it doesn't show up here)
DEBUG: Index pg_toast_18752_idx: Pages 34; Tuples 7681. CPU 0.05s/0.03u
sec.
DEBUG: Analyzing...
Server process (pid 9850) exited with status 139 at Mon Jan 1 01:43:08
2001
Terminating any active server processes...
Server processes were terminated at Mon Jan 1 01:43:08 2001
I didn't compile the thingy with --enable-debug, I can try with that
too, if required?
...
Jukka Honkela
