Re: [SQL] postgres server crashes unexpectedly

2008-03-18 Thread Colin Wetherbee
Chadwick Horn wrote: It looks to me like psql is managing to start a new connection before the postmaster notices the crash of the prior backend and tells everybody to get out of town. Which is odd, but maybe not too implausible if your kernel is set up to favor interactive processes over ba

Re: [SQL] postgres server crashes unexpectedly

2008-03-18 Thread Chadwick Horn
"Chadwick Horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I keep getting this error: Attempting reset: WARNING: terminating connection because of crash of another server process It looks to me like psql is managing to start a new connection before the postmaster notices the crash of the prior backend and

Re: [SQL] postgres server crashes unexpectedly

2008-03-18 Thread Tom Lane
"Chadwick Horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I keep getting this error: > Attempting reset: WARNING: terminating connection because of crash of another > server process It looks to me like psql is managing to start a new connection before the postmaster notices the crash of the prior backend an

Re: [SQL] postgres server crashes unexpectedly

2008-03-18 Thread Chadwick Horn
TECTED]> To: "Chadwick Horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:37 AM Subject: Re: [SQL] postgres server crashes unexpectedly On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Chadwick Horn wrote: Sorry about the lack of information

Re: [SQL] postgres server crashes unexpectedly

2008-03-18 Thread Joshua Kramerý€€€„
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Chadwick Horn wrote: Sorry about the lack of information on the system. We're running fedora (not for sure what version though) core (whitebox). This may not matter in the least bit, but have you tried running the DB on a real RHEL, or CentOS box? The kernel and libs on

Re: [SQL] postgres server crashes unexpectedly

2008-03-18 Thread Chadwick Horn
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chadwick Horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 7:32 PM Subject: Re: [SQL] postgres server crashes unexpectedly "Chadwick Horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PANIC: corrupted item pointer: offset = 0, size = 0 LOG:

Re: [SQL] postgres server crashes unexpectedly

2008-03-17 Thread Tom Lane
"Chadwick Horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PANIC: corrupted item pointer: offset = 0, size = 0 > LOG: autovacuum process (PID 3037) was terminated by signal 6 Hmm ... the only instances of that error text are in PageIndexTupleDelete and PageIndexMultiDelete, so we can fairly safely say that y

[SQL] postgres server crashes unexpectedly

2008-03-17 Thread Chadwick Horn
hi all, we've had a db to stop working for some reason and have searched through google to it's ends to no avail. we have reindexed the database and system database as tried to determine other things that would keep it from working... again, to no avail. this just started occuring about 2 week