Re: Failed assert ((data - start) == data_size) in heaptuple.c

From: Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Alex Ferrara <alex(at)receptiveit(dot)com(dot)au>
Subject: Re: Failed assert ((data - start) == data_size) in heaptuple.c
Date: 2011-04-09 13:20:59
Message-ID: BANLkTikXsEDOvKkWuy5F1ES-JA-mbe=4_w@mail.gmail.com
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On 9 April 2011 00:41, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Brendan Jurd's message of vie abr 08 06:00:22 -0300 2011:
>> Memtest didn't report any errors.  I intend to try swapping out the
>> RAM tomorrow, but in the meantime we got a *different* assertion
>> failure today.  The fact that we are tripping over various different
>> assertions seems to lend further weight to the flaky hardware
>> hypothesis.
>>
>> TRAP: FailedAssertion("!(((lpp)->lp_flags == 1))", File: "heapam.c", Line: 727)
>
> Yep.
>

I swapped the RAM with another machine, and after a few hours running
the other machine popped a segfault. The faulty RAM diagnosis is now
official, so I won't be bothering you folks about this any further.

Cheers,
BJ

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