Re: interesting SIGNAL 10 (BUSERR) on CVS

--On Sunday, November 16, 2003 12:59:43 -0500 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
wrote:

> Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> writes:
>> I got the following:
>
>> $ debug -ic -c core* /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres
>> Warning: No debugging information in /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres
>> Core image of postgres (process p1) created
>> CORE FILE [_bt_getroot]
>> SIGNALED 10 (bus code[BUS_OBJERR] address[0xbb12c550]) in p1
>>         0x808f057 (_bt_getroot+135:)    movzwl 16(%edi),%edx
>
> Is it repeatable?  It's hard to see how _bt_getroot() could core
> except maybe in the presence of serious data corruption in the index ...
it happened once, and postgres did a restart.  The cronjob that triggered
it (WebCalendar's sendreminders script), has run since.  So, I don't know.

I just thought it was weird.

LER




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