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On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Mr. Shannon Aldinger" <god@yinyang.hjsoft.com> writes:
> > I don't have a core file, it died overnight both times so i don't know
> > exactly but I can give you the general query it performs. By crash i mean
> > the postmaster process is gone along with it's sub-processes or threads.
>
> Postmaster dies too? Wow. If you aren't seeing a core file, perhaps
> it's because you are starting the postmaster under "ulimit -c 0".
> You need the process context to be "ulimit -c unlimited" to allow cores
> to be dropped. Might be worth running with -d 2 to enable query logging
> as well.
> I'm not sure about the ulimit, I restarted postmaster with -d 1 a few
minutes ago, I'll check the ulimit and restart it again and hopefully it
dies with some useful info this time.
> Since you didn't use --enable-locale, it's irrelevant; AFAIK we don't
> call strcoll() unless that option's been selected. The known forms of
> the strcoll problem wouldn't cause a postmaster crash anyway, only
> backend crashes. So you've got something new. Please keep us posted.
>
I probably won't have any new info till tommorow morning EST, it died once
around 4am, the other at 5:25am so it's kinda hard to tell what made it go
belly up at this point.
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