Re: Troubleshooting cored dumps

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Vince Vielhaber wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Francisco Reyes wrote:
>
> > 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)
>
> gdb /full/path/to/postmaster /full/path/to/corefile
>
> You can change either full paths to relative if you want.
>
> Then at the prompt:
>
> gdb> where
>
> And you'll get the necessary info - provided debugging symbols were
> compiled in, but even if not you may get an idea of what's wrong.

I got
psql.core: not in executable format:
File format not recognized