Re: Quite strange crash

Denis Perchine <dyp@perchine.com> writes:
> Does anyone seen this on PostgreSQL 7.0.3?????
> FATAL: s_lock(401f7435) at bufmgr.c:2350, stuck spinlock. Aborting.

Were there any errors before that?

I've been suspicious for awhile that the system might neglect to release
buffer cntx_lock spinlocks if an elog() occurs while one is held.  This
looks like it might be such a case, but you're only showing us the end
symptom not what led up to it ...
        regards, tom lane