Re: Troubleshooting cored dumps

Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> writes:
> How does one go about troubleshooting Core Dumps?
> server sent data ("D" message) without prior row description ("T" message)
> server sent data ("D" message) without prior row description ("T" message)
> server sent data ("D" message) without prior row description ("T" message)
> server sent data ("D" message) without prior row description ("T" message)
> server sent data ("D" message) without prior row description ("T" message)
> server sent data ("D" message) without prior row description ("T" message)
> DEBUG:  pq_flush: send() failed: Broken pipe
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I'll save you the trouble: I'll bet that psql ran out of memory for a
huge result set.  libpq is not real robust about coping with that :-(.

            regards, tom lane