Re: Lyris looking to help fix PostgresSQL crashing problems

> John Buckman <john(at)lyris(dot)com> writes:
> > It seems that with larger database sizes (500,000 rows and larger) and
> > high stress, the server daemon has a tendency to core.

> We'd love to see some stack traces ...

Yeah, I just didn't know what form this list prefers in terms of info to be able to work on things, which is why I'd prefer to hire a regular participant of this list. If gcc 'where' stack traces from core files are what you want, we can do that.

I suspect that the problems may be platform-or-build related, because we've often had trouble replicating customer problems on our own sysems. For example, we had many reports of problems with 7.2.x, and saw it crash often on a customer's redhat machine that we had ssh access to, but couldn't make it crash in our own lab. :( That's why we need help. If we could make a simple C test case that crashed pgsql, I'm sure you guys could fix the problem in a jiffym but localizing and recreating a problem is always 80% of it.

-john