Re: beta3 vacuum crash

From: Frank Joerdens <frank(at)joerdens(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Frank Joerdens <frank(at)joerdens(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: beta3 vacuum crash
Date: 2001-01-21 17:46:50
Message-ID: 20010121184650.A23481@rakete.joerdens.de
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On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 05:35:41PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Frank Joerdens <frank(at)joerdens(dot)de> writes:
> > I haven't tried everything to recover from this yet, but will quickly
> > try to document the crash before I lose track of what exactly went
> > into it and what I did: Basically I deleted a table and then ran
> > vacuum verbose, with the net result that I cannot connect to this
> > database anymore with the error:
>
> Any chance of a backtrace from the core dump file? The log only tells
> us that the vacuum process crashed, which isn't much to go on ...

Silly me, this was in fact a December 13 snapshot. I have 3 machines
with an identical setup, two of which I already had moved to beta3. On
those, the error does not occur. On the December 13 version, I can
reproduce the error, which obviously has been fixed.

Sorry about the confusion.

- Frank

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