I wrote: > "Kevin Grittner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> (gdb) p BufferDescriptors[781] >> $1 = {tag = {rnode = {spcNode = 1663, dbNode = 16385, relNode = 2666}, >> blockNum = 1}, flags = 70, usage_count = 5, refcount = 4294967294, >> wait_backend_pid = 748, buf_hdr_lock = 0 '\0', buf_id = 781, freeNext = -2, >> io_in_progress_lock = 1615, content_lock = 1616}
> Whoa. refcount -2? BTW, at this point your most helpful move would be to rebuild with --enable-cassert (keeping --enable-debug) and go back to your current test mix. The only place that decrements refcount has Assert(refcount > 0), so it seems quite likely that you'll soon see an assertion crash, and then getting a stack trace from that would probably expose the culprit immediately. (Make sure you are running the postmaster under ulimit -c unlimited so that you will get a core dump file to trace...) regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings