Re: Strange message followed by server crash

>"Donald Fraser" <postgres(at)kiwi-fraser(dot)net> writes:
>> Log messages:
>> <1Tmenteshvili 10709 2006-08-24 17:48:19 BST 0> ERROR: invalid message format
>> < 3670 2006-08-24 17:48:19 BST > LOG: server process (PID 10709) was terminated by signal 11

>> At the same time, an engineer, who thought nobody was in the building, was working on the network and changing a network switch.

"Tom Lane" writes:
>And what do you make of the apparent junk on the log line? (What's
>your log_line_prefix exactly?)

The log messages are good, log prefix is: <%u %p %t %x>
"1Tmenteshvili" is actually a user login name... don't ask.

>Given that this sounds like it won't be easy to reproduce, I'm hoping
>you have a core file left from that and can get a stack trace from it.
>That would give us some clue where to look.

Where would I look for a core file?
There's nothing unusual in the data directory, nothing in the /tmp directory?

I had my email turned off yesterday and PostgreSQL restarted itself so I didn't find out about the crash till this morning when I logged in.
Everything seems to have be running smoothly since then...
If there isn't a core file, how would I go about ensuring one is created next time? (touch wood there wont be one).

Regards
Donald Fraser