> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl> writes:
> > >>> In current (as of a couple hours ago) clean CVS tip sources, without any
> > >>> of my local changes, I'm getting a postmaster segfault when trying to
> > >>> connect to a non existant database.
> >
> > Alvaro, did you figure this out? I've been mostly distracted for the
> > past week ...
>
> No. I still see the failure on my platform but I don't know what to
> attribute it to.
I also have that for a database installation from CVS on April 17.
It also leaves the server in some incoherent state:
Apr 30 17:58:22 sablons postgres[31629]: [31-1] FATAL: database "toto" does not exist
Apr 30 17:58:22 sablons postgres[31604]: [31-1] LOG: server process (PID 31629) was terminated by signal 11
Apr 30 17:58:22 sablons postgres[31604]: [32-1] LOG: terminating any other active server processes
Apr 30 17:58:22 sablons postgres[31532]: [31-1] WARNING: terminating connection because of crash of another server
process
Apr 30 17:58:22 sablons postgres[31532]: [31-2] DETAIL: The postmaster has commanded this server process to roll back
thecurrent transaction and exit, because another server
Apr 30 17:58:22 sablons postgres[31532]: [31-3] process exited abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.
Apr 30 17:58:22 sablons postgres[31532]: [31-4] HINT: In a moment you should be able to reconnect to the database and
repeatyour command.
Apr 30 17:58:22 sablons postgres[31604]: [33-1] LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing
Apr 30 17:58:22 sablons postgres[31630]: [34-1] LOG: database system was interrupted at 2004-04-30 17:54:56 CEST
Apr 30 17:58:22 sablons postgres[31630]: [35-1] LOG: checkpoint record is at 0/B486F30
Apr 30 17:58:22 sablons postgres[31630]: [36-1] LOG: redo record is at 0/B486F30; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown
TRUE
Apr 30 17:58:22 sablons postgres[31630]: [37-1] LOG: next transaction ID: 10769; next OID: 123703
Apr 30 17:58:22 sablons postgres[31630]: [38-1] LOG: database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in
progress
Apr 30 17:58:22 sablons postgres[31630]: [39-1] LOG: redo starts at 0/B486F70Apr 30 17:58:22 sablons postgres[31630]:
[40-1]PANIC: could not create relation 123703/16660: No such file or directory
Apr 30 17:58:22 sablons postgres[31604]: [34-1] LOG: startup process (PID 31630) was terminated by signal 6
Apr 30 17:58:22 sablons postgres[31604]: [35-1] LOG: aborting startup due to startup process failure
So it is not a "clean" coredump, if some may be;-)
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Fabien Coelho - coelho@cri.ensmp.fr
