abnormal exits: what am I overlooking?

Hi,

I'm doing some tests with 7.2 here, and I'm having trouble creating a
table.  This is on Solaris 7 compiled with a 64 bit gcc; gcc -v gives

Reading specs from
/opt/OXRS/local/gcc-3.0-v9/lib/gcc-lib/sparcv9-sun-solaris2/3.0.3/specs
Configured with: ./configure --prefix=/opt/OXRS/local/gcc-3.0-v9
--enable-languages=c,c++ sparcv9-sun-solaris2 : (reconfigured)
./configure --prefix=/opt/OXRS/local/gcc-3.0-v9
--enable-languages=c,c++ --host=sparcv9-sun-solaris2 : (reconfigured)
./configure --prefix=/opt/OXRS/local/gcc-3.0-v9
--enable-languages=c,c++ --host=sparcv9-sun-solaris2
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.0.3

Postgres passwd all its regression tests after the build.

Here's the CREATE statement:

create table epp_registrar_notification
(id integer primary key default nextval('registrar_notification_id_seq'),
registrar_id integer,
created_on timestamp default current_timestamp,
message_type char(1),
poll_status char(1),
email_status char (1),
send_to_email varchar,
copy_to_email varchar,
from_email varchar,
subject_line varchar,
message_text varchar,
expires_on timestamp not null default current_times tamp + '7 days');

The backend died with the attached in the log, debug level 1.  There
was _once_ a message returned to psql, but in repeated attempts, I
haven't been able to see it again, and I didn't catch it the first
time.  It was a message talking about allocation, I think, but I know
that's no help :( .

So, I thought I'd try turning up the debug level.  When I turn it
to 4, the system stops responding when I try to connect.  Hmm.  So I
try with debug level 3.  I can connect, but when I try to run the
query, it locks.  Here's the end of the log:

2002-02-27 19:54:23 [28780]  NOTICE:  CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will
create implicit index 'epp_registrar_notification_pkey' for table
'epp_registrar_notification'
2002-02-27 19:54:23 [28780]  DEBUG:  parse tree:
2002-02-27 19:57:59 [28803]      DEBUG:  proc_exit(0)
2002-02-27 19:57:59 [28803]  DEBUG:  shmem_exit(0)
2002-02-27 19:57:59 [28803]  DEBUG:  exit(0)
2002-02-27 19:57:59 [28773]  DEBUG:  reaping dead processes
2002-02-27 19:57:59 [28773]  DEBUG:  child process (pid 28803) exited
with exit code 0

Anyone have any idea what I ought to be looking at next?  Am I just
overlooking something obvious?

A

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