Re: BUG #1917: autovaccuum crashes

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 04:21:16AM +0100, Theo Schlossnagle wrote:

> Doing large data loads via the COPY command into a set of schema-identical
> tables table1, table2, table3 all of which inherrit table. (simulating
> Oracle's partitioning).  Periodically, we get:
>
>
> LOG:  autovacuum process (PID 9685) was terminated by signal 11
> LOG:  terminating any other active server processes
> LOG:  all server processes terminated; reinitializing
> LOG:  database system was interrupted at 2005-09-27 09:12:49 PDT

> The process doesn't seem to dump core.

Please run "ulimit -c unlimited" and restart the postmaster, to try to
get a core dump.  (It should be in the data/ directory, not in the
data/base/<oid>/ directory as it used to be in previous versions.)

If it doesn't work, please provide more details on your schema.  I'm
going to try to reproduce your problem here.

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