Re: [GENERAL] "show all" command crashes server *** FIXED ***

2009-09-13 Thread Tom Lane
Grant Maxwell writes: > The error was that if "show all" was run on this postgresql (version > 8.3) server, postgres would crash and then recover. > The postgres log showed: > Sep 10 23:55:36 theconsole postgres[31118]: [4-1] 0: LOG: 0: > server process (PID 31145) was te

Re: [GENERAL] "show all" command crashes server *** FIXED ***

2009-09-13 Thread Grant Maxwell
First of all thanks to those who provided input. This problem is now fixed and I thought I would post this solution so that others might benefit in the future. For the sake of completeness: The error was that if "show all" was run on this postgresql (version 8.3) server, postgres would cr

Re: [GENERAL] "show all" command crashes server

2009-09-10 Thread Tom Lane
Grant Maxwell writes: > On 11/09/2009, at 8:36 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Did you restart the postmaster afterwards? > yep - full restart. okay, next step is to collect a stack trace ... regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgres

Re: [GENERAL] "show all" command crashes server

2009-09-10 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 >> shared_preload_libraries = 'pgmemcache' ... > Sounds like a smoking gun to me. Yep, known problem with pgmemcache. Bruce and I poked around with this about a year ago. Bruce, I think you were going to throw the problem at some EDB people - di

Re: [GENERAL] "show all" command crashes server

2009-09-10 Thread Grant Maxwell
On 11/09/2009, at 8:36 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Grant Maxwell writes: On the problem server: shared_preload_libraries = 'pgmemcache' #local_preload_libraries = '' on the others both are emply. Sounds like a smoking gun to me. For good measure I removed pgmemcache but the pro

Re: [GENERAL] "show all" command crashes server

2009-09-10 Thread Tom Lane
Grant Maxwell writes: > On the problem server: > shared_preload_libraries = 'pgmemcache' > #local_preload_libraries = '' > on the others both are emply. Sounds like a smoking gun to me. > For good measure I removed pgmemcache but the problem persists. Did you restart the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] "show all" command crashes server

2009-09-10 Thread Grant Maxwell
On 11/09/2009, at 8:17 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Grant Maxwell writes: On 11/09/2009, at 1:09 AM, Richard Huxton wrote: Hmm - some modules can provide their own config variables. Do you have the same modules installed in all three servers? How can I determine what modules are

Re: [GENERAL] "show all" command crashes server

2009-09-10 Thread Tom Lane
Grant Maxwell writes: > On 11/09/2009, at 1:09 AM, Richard Huxton wrote: >> Hmm - some modules can provide their own config variables. Do you have >> the same modules installed in all three servers? > How can I determine what modules are installed ? The contents of the local_preloa

Re: [GENERAL] "show all" command crashes server

2009-09-10 Thread Grant Maxwell
On 11/09/2009, at 1:09 AM, Richard Huxton wrote: On this one server if I use the command "show all" in psql, phpPgAdmin or pgAdmin3 the postgresql server spits the dummy as follows: postgres=# show all; server closed the connection unexpectedly Hmm - some modules can provide their ow

Re: [GENERAL] "show all" command crashes server

2009-09-10 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Grant Maxwell wrote: > Hi folks > First time poster here so please extend grace if I don't initially provide > what is needed to help. > I am running postgresql 8.3.7 on debian lenny > (postgresql-8.3_8.3.7-0lenny1_i386.deb). > I have three of these servers and gene

Re: [GENERAL] "show all" command crashes server

2009-09-10 Thread Richard Huxton
Grant Maxwell wrote: > Hi folks > > First time poster here so please extend grace if I don't initially > provide what is needed to help. > > I am running postgresql 8.3.7 on debian lenny > (postgresql-8.3_8.3.7-0lenny1_i386.deb) Well that's useful. > I have three of these servers and generally