Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump causes postgres crash

2007-08-23 Thread Tom Lane
Jeff Amiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would a good stack trace (assuming I want to crash my > database again) help here? Well, it'd be more information than we have now ... regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump causes postgres crash

2007-08-23 Thread Jeff Amiel
--- Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can't help thinking you are looking at generalized > system > instability. Maybe someone knocked a few cables > loose while > installing new network hardware? Database server/storage instability or network instability? There is no doubt that there

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump causes postgres crash

2007-08-22 Thread Tom Lane
Jeff Amiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Even more odd is that a LOCAL pg_dump (from on the > box) succeeded just fine tonight (after the second > crash). That seems to eliminate the theory of a crash due to data corruption ... unless the corruption somehow repaired itself in the intervening 30 mi

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump causes postgres crash

2007-08-22 Thread Jeff Amiel
>From the logs tonight when the second crash occurred.. Aug 22 20:45:12 db-1 postgres[5805]: [ID 748848 local0.info] [6-1] 2007-08-22 20:45:12 CDT LOG: received smart shutdown request Aug 22 20:45:12 db-1 postgres[5805]: [ID 748848 local0.info] [7-1] 2007-08-22 20:45:12 CDT LOG: server proce

[GENERAL] pg_dump causes postgres crash

2007-08-22 Thread Jeff Amiel
Fairly new (less than a week) install. "PostgreSQL 8.2.4 on i386-pc-solaris2.10, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-branch+sol_rpath)" database size around 43 gigabytes. 2 attempts at a pg_dump across the network caused the database to go down... The first time I thought it was beca