Re: Shutting down a warm standby database in

Stephen Harris wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 02:47:27PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Stephen Harris <lists@spuddy.org> writes:
> > > OK, I just did the same tests on the CVS tree, rather than beta3 and
> > > I see different results.  This time recovery aborts with a PANIC.
> > 
> > Yeah, that's expected since the whole recovery process is a critical
> > section.  We could change that but it's cosmetic.
> 
> Should this cause a coredump when it happens?  With rc1 whenever I
> do a shutdown I get a core file
> 
> core:           ELF 32-bit MSB core file SPARC Version 1, from 'postgres'
> 
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0xff0a02d4 in _libc_kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
> #1  0xff035a5c in abort () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
> #2  0x0020cd50 in errfinish ()
> #3  0x0006d258 in RestoreArchivedFile ()

You should never get a core file.  I think we need the binary compiled
with symbols so we can get more information from this backtrace.

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