Re: BUG #5900: Coredump on executing query

"Sergey Aleynikov" <sergey.aleynikov@gmail.com> writes:
> PostgreSQL version: 8.4.1

> Yesterday i've got a non-repeatable database server crash with following
> messages in server log:
> [ crash is within auto_explain according to backtrace ]

I think most likely you got bit by this known bug:

commit 85a646aee39b97b68bd70956db95afd11cde93a8
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date:   Thu Feb 18 03:06:53 2010 +0000

    Force READY portals into FAILED state when a transaction or subtransaction
    is aborted, if they were created within the failed xact.  This prevents
    ExecutorEnd from being run on them, which is a good idea because they may
    contain references to tables or other objects that no longer exist.
    In particular this is hazardous when auto_explain is active, but it's
    really rather surprising that nobody has seen an issue with this before.
    I'm back-patching this to 8.4, since that's the first version that contains
    auto_explain or an ExecutorEnd hook, but I wonder whether we shouldn't
    back-patch further.

IOW, if the query was aborted, it's unsafe to run auto_explain on it
but the system sometimes tried anyway.

Please update to 8.4.3 or later.

            regards, tom lane