On Dec 12, 2013, at 3:18 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Hm, a PANIC really ought to result in a core file. You sure you don't > have that disabled (perhaps via a ulimit setting)?
Since it's using the Ubuntu packaging, we have pg_ctl_options = '-c' in /etc/postgresql/9.3/main/pg_ctl.conf. > As for the root cause, it's hard to say. The file/line number says it's > a buffer header lock that's stuck. I rechecked all the places that lock > buffer headers, and all of them have very short code paths to the > corresponding unlock, so there's no obvious explanation how this could > happen. The server was running with shared_buffers=100GB, but the problem has reoccurred now with shared_buffers=16GB. -- -- Christophe Pettus x...@thebuild.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers