Stephen Amadei <amadei@dandy.net> writes:
>> Urgh. Can you provide a stack trace?
> You mean using strace? Yeah. The strace created quite a bit of logs, but
> the process that segfaulted is included below.
> open("/usr/local/pgsql/data/global/1262", O_RDONLY) = 4
> read(4, "\0\0\0\0\f\222\20\0\7\0\0\0\34\0\244\37\0 \0 \244\37\0"..., 8192) = 8192
> --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
Hmm, this does not square with your prior statement that it's a chroot
can't-call-/bin/cp issue. Would you set things up to allow a core dump
(ie, not ulimit -c 0) and then do "gdb postgres-executable corefile"
followed by "bt"?
regards, tom lane