Re: sig 6 on postgres server

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Lee, Mija" <mija(at)scharp(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: sig 6 on postgres server
Date: 2009-03-03 02:47:16
Message-ID: 2507.1236048436@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Lee, Mija" <mija(at)scharp(dot)org> writes:
> Recently I had a postgres instance shut down & restart, and I'm trying
> to understand why. I'm running 8.3.5 on solaris 10, with the data
> directory on a netapp. The postgres log shows an error associated with
> some of the critical application tables not existing, then it was unable
> to write to the log, then a sigabrt.

> cpas 2009-03-02 14:58:34 PSTPANIC: could not write to log file 93,
> segment 240 at offset 9560064, length 8192: Interrupted system call

EINTR? Hmm, I wonder if you have the data directory on a "soft" NFS
mount? We tend not to trust NFS too much at all around here, but if
you have to use it, hard-mount is more reliable than soft.

regards, tom lane

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