Re: Segfault during queries

Of course I cannot say if this is your case, but I've been using PG since 2004 and every single instance* of a segfault has turned out to be caused by some 3rd-party extension or other. And yes, the extension was never related in any way to the query being run, it just corrupted memory such that PG would die later. So I would audit extensions, and see if any have been recently added, any could be removed temporarily, and so on.

* It's only 2 or 3 cases in all that time, but still, it was never core PG.

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On Oct 29, 2021, at 8:05 AM, Tyler Brock <tyler.brock@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I keep getting segfaults when running queries against postgresql replicas. We have an ETL job that hits these nodes with many small queries (no more than 8 concurrently) and the box has 16 cores and plenty of I/O and ram.

However, during this process postgresql segfaults, usually on COPY commands that have this shape:

COPY

(

       SELECT row_to_json(t)

       FROM   (

                     SELECT lead_tag."objectId" AS "lead_id",

                            lead_tag."tag"      AS "tag_id"

                     FROM   (

                                   SELECT "objectId",

                                          jsonb_array_elements_text("tags") AS tag

                                   FROM   "Lead"

                                   WHERE  true

                                   AND    "Lead"."organization" = 'I6JDWAaZx5'

                                   AND    tags IS NOT NULL

                                   AND    "Lead"."updatedAt" >= '2015-01-01'

                                   AND    "Lead"."updatedAt" < '2021-10-30T11:05:40.389773+00:00' ) AS lead_tag) t) TO stdout

Is there anything I can do to prevent this or anything i can look at to try and diagnose what is happening here? I’m running Postgres 12.7 and cannot tell if this is a symptom of a bug or just misconfiguration.

What I see in the error logs is:

2021-10-29 11:08:10 UTC:172.23.17.171(54332):postgres@postgres:[22200]:ERROR: cache lookup failed for type 0

2021-10-29 11:08:10 UTC:172.23.17.171(54332):postgres@postgres:[22200]:STATEMENT: COPY (SELECT ROW_TO_JSON(t) FROM (… the query above...) TO STDOUT

2021-10-29 11:08:10 UTC::@:[19406]:LOG: server process (PID 22200) was terminated by signal 11: Segmentation fault

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

-Tyler