Re: catalog corruption bug

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Tom Lane wrote:

> OK, this must be a different issue then.  I think we have seen reports
> like this one before, but not been able to reproduce it.
>
> Could you rebuild with Asserts enabled and see if any asserts trigger?

I got an assert to fail.  I'm not entirely sure if this is helpful, but I
managed to get a core dump with --enable-debug and --enable-cassert (with
optimizations still on).  Let me know if there is anything else that would
be useful to get out of this core file...

(gdb) bt
#0  0x00002aaaab8a0cf9 in kill () from /usr/lib64/libc.so.6
#1  0x00002aaaab8a0a3d in raise () from /usr/lib64/libc.so.6
#2  0x00002aaaab8a1c82 in abort () from /usr/lib64/libc.so.6
#3  0x00000000005f9838 in ExceptionalCondition (   conditionName=0x1abc <Address 0x1abc out of bounds>,   errorType=0x6
<Address0x6 out of bounds>, fileName=0x0,
 
lineNumber=-1)   at assert.c:51
#4  0x00000000005eec5d in AtEOXact_CatCache (isCommit=-68 '')   at catcache.c:575
#5  0x000000000047464f in CommitTransaction () at xact.c:1573
#6  0x0000000000474d07 in CommitTransactionCommand () at xact.c:2184
#7  0x00000000005581da in AutoVacMain (argc=6844, argv=0x6) at
autovacuum.c:688
#8  0x0000000000558907 in autovac_start () at autovacuum.c:170
#9  0x000000000055e66b in ServerLoop () at postmaster.c:1269
#10 0x000000000055f9b9 in PostmasterMain (argc=3, argv=0x8832e0)   at postmaster.c:943
#11 0x000000000051fb43 in main (argc=3, argv=0x8832e0) at main.c:256
(gdb) frame 4
#4  0x00000000005eec5d in AtEOXact_CatCache (isCommit=-68 '')   at catcache.c:575
575                             Assert(!ct->dead);
(gdb) l
570                     {
571                             CatCTup    *ct = (CatCTup *) DLE_VAL(elt);
572
573                             Assert(ct->ct_magic == CT_MAGIC);
574                             Assert(ct->refcount == 0);
575                             Assert(!ct->dead);
576                     }
577             }
578     #endif
579     }
(gdb) set print pretty
(gdb) p *ct
$1 = { ct_magic = 1462113538, my_cache = 0x2aaaaaac3060, lrulist_elem = {   dle_next = 0x0,   dle_prev = 0x939ab0,
dle_val= 0x2aaaaab19e18,   dle_list = 0x93b1a8 }, cache_elem = {   dle_next = 0x0,   dle_prev = 0x934b58,   dle_val =
0x2aaaaab19e18,  dle_list = 0x2aaaaaac36c8 }, c_list = 0x0, refcount = 0, dead = 1 '\001', negative = 0 '\0',
hash_value= 15438, tuple = {   t_len = 48,   t_self = {     ip_blkid = {       bi_hi = 0,       bi_lo = 0     },
ip_posid= 70   },   t_tableOid = 2602,   t_datamcxt = 0x914998,   t_data = 0x2aaaaab19f30 }
 
}