YES, Its on Amazon EC2 (our production DB running postgres 8.3 version for more than 3yrs). And its a clean folder.
I am not sure below is the one you are expecting, but hope the below trace helps.. r...@acti-db-bala:~# sudo -u postgres gdb -q -c /var/lib/pgsql/data/core /var/lib/pgsql/bin/postgres Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.6.32...done. done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/libdl-2.9.so...done. done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.6...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/libm-2.9.so...done. done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libm.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/libc-2.9.so...done. done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/libz.so.1...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/libz.so.1.2.3.3...done. done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libz.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/ld-2.9.so...done. done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_files.so.2...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/libnss_files-2.9.so...done. done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_files.so.2 Reading symbols from /var/lib/pgsql/lib/uniqueidentifier.so...done. Loaded symbols for /var/lib/pgsql/lib/uniqueidentifier.so Reading symbols from /lib/libuuid.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libuuid.so.1 Core was generated by `postgres: postgres acti [local] COPY '. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. [New process 16223] #0 strlen () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/strlen.S:48 48 ../sysdeps/x86_64/strlen.S: Permission denied. in ../sysdeps/x86_64/strlen.S (gdb) Current language: auto; currently asm Thanks, Bala On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Craig Ringer <cr...@postnewspapers.com.au>wrote: > On 27/11/2010 5:09 PM, Balamurugan Mahendran wrote: > >> Thanks for your immediate reply!!. Happy Thanks Giving day!! >> >> postg...@acti-db-bala:~$ uname -a >> Linux acti-db-bala 2.6.16.33-xenU #2 SMP Wed Aug 15 17:27:36 SAST 2007 >> x86_64 GNU/Linux >> > > Is this running on a virtual hosting provider somewhere? If so, which one? > > > postg...@acti-db-bala:~$ cat /etc/issue >> Ubuntu 9.04 \n \l >> >> Also I used to compile by the below command >> >> ./configure --prefix=/var/lib/pgsql --with-perl --with-libxml >> --enable-debug >> > > ... hang on. Did you have anything else in /var/lib/pgsql before running > this install? If you had an old version that you didn't clean out in there, > I'd expect problems. > > It's usually wise to install custom-compiled software to a prefix that > doesn't already contain anything else, like --prefix=/opt/pgsql-9.0.1 . That > way it's easy to delete, easy to keep separate from other things, etc. > > > -- > Craig Ringer > > Tech-related writing at http://soapyfrogs.blogspot.com/ >