Re: interesting SIGNAL 10 (BUSERR) on CVS

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: interesting SIGNAL 10 (BUSERR) on CVS
Date: 2003-11-16 18:15:27
Message-ID: 29151.1069006527@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org> writes:
>> Is it repeatable? It's hard to see how _bt_getroot() could core
>> except maybe in the presence of serious data corruption in the index ...

> it happened once, and postgres did a restart. The cronjob that triggered
> it (WebCalendar's sendreminders script), has run since. So, I don't know.

Hmm. It might be worth running memtest86 to look for flaky RAM.
I doubt it's worth the effort to try to extract any info from a core
file with no symbols :-(

regards, tom lane

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