Re: pg 8.4 crashing.

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg 8.4 crashing.
Date: 2010-09-24 02:57:09
Message-ID: AANLkTi=p=2u5L-62LvOGfgR0oqjkUhTF=92e2p2QW=pn@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> I've got a problem with pg 8.4.4 crashing with a sig 6 abort due to a
>> panic on failing to add a right sibling in an index.  Log output:
>
>> PANIC:  failed to add item to the right sibling in index "logged_in_uid"
>> STATEMENT:  INSERT INTO logged_in ...
>
> If you can apply this patch:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2010-08/msg00365.php
> it should tell you which index page is causing the problem.  Then
> please dump that page with pg_filedump and send it in.

Patch applied. This crash happens on average about once a day.
Happened twice yesterday, but hasn't happened today. I'll report back
when / if it does it again.

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