Re: Postgres 9.0 crash on win7

From: Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrea Peri <aperi2007(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgres 9.0 crash on win7
Date: 2010-10-04 03:55:01
Message-ID: 4CA95015.9070800@postnewspapers.com.au
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On 04/10/10 10:56, Tom Lane wrote:
> Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
>> While it's consistently crashing my Pg 9 on win7 32-bit, too, I haven't
>> been able to get a backtrace yet. I thought it'd be trivial given the
>> ease of reproducing the crash - but the process that's crashing isn't
>> the backend running the query.
>
>> It looks like it's one of the helpers like the stats collector, autovac,
>> bgwriter, etc. I'm unsure which yet.
>
> I'd bet on autovacuum. You might be able to reproduce the crash in the
> foreground process by issuing a manual VACUUM or ANALYZE.

Thanks for the tip.

I can't reproduce this under Linux, so it'll be back to the Windows
gaming/testing desktop when I get home to see if I can catch it there.

--
Craig Ringer

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