Re: Bug #456: postgres dumps core in initlocalbuffer

Hi,

thank you for your fast answer. I will try to upgrade, with over 20
production databases not a one-hour job :-)
I will report results to you...

Am I the only one, where this occured??

Greetings

Florian

Tom Lane wrote:
>
> pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org writes:
> > Stacktrace is:
>
> > #0 0x812ac0c in chunk_free (ar_ptr=0x81cb860, p=0xd4ef05d3) at malloc.c:3125
> > #1 0x812a4d3 in chunk_alloc (ar_ptr=0x81cb860, nb=7176) at malloc.c:2612
> > #2 0x8129f8f in __libc_malloc (bytes=7168) at malloc.c:2714
>
> This looks like malloc's bookkeeping data structures must have gotten
> clobbered, perhaps by a wild store operation or freeing a chunk twice
> or some such. The error is doubtless somewhere in the postmaster,
> not in InitLocalBuffer. Before you expend effort trying to hunt it
> down, I'd suggest updating to the latest stable release, 7.1.3 ---
> the problem may be fixed already. If that doesn't help, consider
> linking the postmaster with a debugging malloc package, such as Electric
> Fence...
>
> regards, tom lane