The following bug has been logged on the website:
Bug reference: 16087
Logged by: Ariel Mashraki
Email address: ariel@mashraki.co.il
PostgreSQL version: 12.0
Operating system: Docker (Debian 12.0-2.pgdg100+1) on OSX
Description:
Running ALTER TABLE with both ALTER COLUMN and ADD COLUMN causes a database
segfault. It happens constantly on version 12 and doesn't reproduce on
version 11 and 10.
Attaching here a set of commands (and their output) to help reproducing the
issue ($ means start of a command).
$ create table "users" (id bigint not null generated by default as identity,
age int not null, primary key(id));
$ insert into users (age) values(1);
$ alter table "users" alter column "age" type bigint, add column "nickname"
text;
Command output:
server closed the connection unexpectedly
This probably means the server terminated abnormally
before or while processing the request.
The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Failed.
Database logs:
2019-10-29 15:08:25.143 UTC [1] LOG: server process (PID 1747) was
terminated by signal 11: Segmentation fault
2019-10-29 15:08:25.143 UTC [1] DETAIL: Failed process was running: alter
table "users" alter column "age" type bigint, add column "nickname" text;
2019-10-29 15:08:25.143 UTC [1] LOG: terminating any other active server
processes
2019-10-29 15:08:25.144 UTC [1725] WARNING: terminating connection because
of crash of another server process
2019-10-29 15:08:25.144 UTC [1725] DETAIL: The postmaster has commanded
this server process to roll back the current transaction and exit, because
another server process exited abnormally and possibly corrupted shared
memory.
2019-10-29 15:08:25.144 UTC [1725] HINT: In a moment you should be able to
reconnect to the database and repeat your command.
2019-10-29 15:08:25.146 UTC [1903] FATAL: the database system is in
recovery mode
2019-10-29 15:08:25.148 UTC [1] LOG: all server processes terminated;
reinitializing
2019-10-29 15:08:25.167 UTC [1904] LOG: database system was interrupted;
last known up at 2019-10-29 14:58:57 UTC
2019-10-29 15:08:25.320 UTC [1904] LOG: database system was not properly
shut down; automatic recovery in progress
2019-10-29 15:08:25.329 UTC [1904] LOG: redo starts at 0/19835A8
2019-10-29 15:08:25.330 UTC [1904] LOG: invalid record length at 0/199D778:
wanted 24, got 0
2019-10-29 15:08:25.330 UTC [1904] LOG: redo done at 0/199D740
2019-10-29 15:08:25.354 UTC [1] LOG: database system is ready to accept
connections