Re: BUG #5238: frequent signal 11 segfaults

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Nagy Daniel <nagy(dot)daniel(at)telekom(dot)hu>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>, "pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #5238: frequent signal 11 segfaults
Date: 2009-12-20 05:42:57
Message-ID: 21533.1261287777@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Nagy Daniel wrote:
>> More info: we disabled autovacuum (we do vacuuming via cron)
>> and the segfaults seem to be gone.

> That's pretty weird if it means that autovacuum was crashing and your
> cron-based vacuums are not.

We've seen crashes in the autovac control logic before ... except that
the backtrace said it was nowhere near there.

regards, tom lane

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