Re: strange buildfarm failures

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: strange buildfarm failures
Date: 2007-05-02 15:23:31
Message-ID: 20070502152331.GO4585@alvh.no-ip.org
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
>
> > well - i now have a core file but it does not seem to be much worth
> > except to prove that autovacuum seems to be the culprit:
> >
> > Core was generated by `postgres: autovacuum worker process
> > '.
> > Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > #0 0x00000ed9 in ?? ()
> > warning: GDB can't find the start of the function at 0xed9.

I just noticed an ugly bug in the worker code which I'm fixing. I think
this one would also throw SIGSEGV, not SIGABRT.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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