Re: BUG #5238: frequent signal 11 segfaults

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Nagy Daniel <nagy(dot)daniel(at)telekom(dot)hu>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>, "pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #5238: frequent signal 11 segfaults
Date: 2009-12-13 16:13:30
Message-ID: 162867790912130813p5c91fc0fib0881a93706626ad@mail.gmail.com
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2009/12/13 Nagy Daniel <nagy(dot)daniel(at)telekom(dot)hu>:
> I ran "select * from" on both tables. All rows were returned
> successfully, no error logs were produced during the selects.
>
> However there are usually many 23505 errors in indices, like:
> Dec 13 10:02:13 goldbolt postgres[21949]: [26-1]
> user=randirw,db=lovehunter ERROR:  23505: duplicate key value violates
> unique constraint "kepek_eredeti_uid_meret_idx"
> Dec 13 10:02:13 goldbolt postgres[21949]: [26-2]
> user=randirw,db=lovehunter LOCATION:  _bt_check_unique, nbtinsert.c:301
>
> There are many 58P01 errors as well, like:
> Dec 13 10:05:18 goldbolt postgres[7931]: [23-1] user=munin,db=lovehunter
> ERROR:  58P01: could not open segment 1 of relation base/16
> 400/19856 (target block 3014766): No such file or directory
> Dec 13 10:05:18 goldbolt postgres[7931]: [23-2] user=munin,db=lovehunter
> LOCATION:  _mdfd_getseg, md.c:1572
> Dec 13 10:05:18 goldbolt postgres[7931]: [23-3] user=munin,db=lovehunter
> STATEMENT:  SELECT count(*) FROM users WHERE nem='t'
>
> Reindexing sometimes helps, but the error logs appear again within
> hours.
>

You can have a some hardware problems. Try to check your hardware,
please. Minimum is memory test.

Regards
Pavel Stehule

> Recently a new error appeared:
>
> Dec 13 03:46:55 goldbolt postgres[18628]: [15-1]
> user=randir,db=lovehunter ERROR:  XX000: tuple offset out of range: 0
> Dec 13 03:46:55 goldbolt postgres[18628]: [15-2]
> user=randir,db=lovehunter LOCATION:  tbm_add_tuples, tidbitmap.c:286
> Dec 13 03:46:55 goldbolt postgres[18628]: [15-3]
> user=randir,db=lovehunter STATEMENT:  SELECT * FROM valogatas WHERE
> uid!='16208' AND eletkor BETWEEN 39 AND 55 AND megyeid='1' AND
> keresettnem='f' AND dom='iwiw.hu' AND appid='2001434963' AND nem='t'
> ORDER BY random() DESC
>
>
>
> If there is on-disk corruption, would a complete dump and
> restore to an other directory fix it?
>
> Apart from that, I think that pg shouldn't crash in case of
> on-disk corruptions, but log an error message instead.
> I'm sure that it's not that easy to implement as it seems,
> but nothing is impossible :)
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel
>
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Nagy Daniel <nagy(dot)daniel(at)telekom(dot)hu> writes:
>>> Here's a better backtrace:
>>
>> The crash location suggests a problem with a corrupted tuple, but it's
>> impossible to guess where the tuple came from.  In particular I can't
>> guess whether this reflects on-disk data corruption or some internal
>> bug.  Now that you have (some of) the query, can you put together a test
>> case?  Or try "select * from" each of the tables used in the query to
>> check for on-disk corruption.
>>
>>                       regards, tom lane
>
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