Re: [HACKERS] VACUUM ANALYZE problem on linux

Hello!

On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Tom Lane wrote:
> Could you build the backend with -g and send a gdb backtrace from the
> corefile produced when the crash occurs?

I have a problem getting core - postgres didn't produces core. Recently
I got a suggestion (from Vadim) to attach gdb to a running process and
debug it this way. Ok, done.
To remind of the problem - I have a problem running VACUUM ANALYZE on a
glibc2 linux (Debian 2.0). On solaris it is Ok (and I got a report it is Ok
on HP-UX).
Here is the traceback. The problem is in strcoll, don't understand why.

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x40119587 in strcoll ()
(gdb) where
#0 0x40119587 in strcoll ()
#1 0x816cadd in varstr_cmp (arg1=0x4020fccc " ", len1=0,
arg2=0x8268604 " ", len2=0) at varlena.c:511
#2 0x816b31d in bpcharlt (arg1=0x4020fcc8 "\n", arg2=0x8268600 "\n")
at varchar.c:504
#3 0x80a1bb7 in vc_attrstats (onerel=0x8264378, vacrelstats=0x8262a10,
tuple=0x4020fc90) at vacuum.c:1630
#4 0x809ffec in vc_scanheap (vacrelstats=0x8262a10, onerel=0x8264378,
vacuum_pages=0xbfffcf84, fraged_pages=0xbfffcf78) at vacuum.c:806
#5 0x809f773 in vc_vacone (relid=32600, analyze=1 '\001', va_cols=0x0)
at vacuum.c:504
#6 0x809ed84 in vc_vacuum (VacRelP=0x0, analyze=1 '\001', va_cols=0x0)
at vacuum.c:257
#7 0x809ec3e in vacuum (vacrel=0x0, verbose=0 '\000', analyze=1 '\001',
va_spec=0x0) at vacuum.c:160
#8 0x8138c43 in ProcessUtility (parsetree=0x82464e0, dest=Remote)
at utility.c:644
#9 0x8135388 in pg_exec_query_dest (query_string=0xbfffd0d4 "vacuum
analyze;",
dest=Remote, aclOverride=0 '\000') at postgres.c:758
#10 0x8135264 in pg_exec_query (query_string=0xbfffd0d4 "vacuum analyze;")
at postgres.c:699
#11 0x813677e in PostgresMain (argc=6, argv=0xbffff15c, real_argc=8,
real_argv=0xbffffafc) at postgres.c:1645
#12 0x8111561 in DoBackend (port=0x82110f0) at postmaster.c:1541
#13 0x8110f35 in BackendStartup (port=0x82110f0) at postmaster.c:1312
#14 0x811012f in ServerLoop () at postmaster.c:757
#15 0x810fb5e in PostmasterMain (argc=8, argv=0xbffffafc) at
postmaster.c:563
#16 0x80c8c32 in main (argc=8, argv=0xbffffafc) at main.c:93

>
> regards, tom lane
>

Oleg.
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