"Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Still, it's quite unclear how bad data read from the stats file could
>> have led to an infinite loop. The stats file format is pretty "flat"
>> and AFAICS the worst effect of undetected corruption would be to have
>> wrong count values for some tables/databases.
> True. Is it possible some other bit of the data in the system was
> corrupted and freaking out the stats collector?
The collector is pretty self-contained by design, so it's hard to see
what else would affect it. I'm wondering a bit if the OP's hardware is
still flaky :-(. In any case it would sure be interesting to see a few
stack traces from the process.
regards, tom lane