Dunno if anyone's noticed, but buildfarm member jackal has been crashing
intermittently in the "cluster" regression test. I found out that I can
reproduce that here on a Mac Mini (apparently the same or nearly same
hardware/software as jackal) --- just repeat the parallel tests often
enough, and it'll fail once in awhile. I've got a core file but gdb
is being no help at all:
mini:~/pgsql/src/test/regress tgl$ gdb /Users/tgl/testversion/bin/postmaster /cores/core.23609
GNU gdb 6.3.50-20050815 (Apple version gdb-563) (Wed Jul 19 05:10:58 GMT 2006)
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This GDB was configured as "i386-apple-darwin"...Reading symbols for shared libraries .. done
Core was generated by `/Users/tgl/testversion/bin/postmaster'.
Core file contained no thread-specific data
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb)
Any suggestions how to extract some info out of this?
regards, tom lane