Re: Possible stability issue: permanent hang on dropdb

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> On 2/6/10 8:20 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 7:43 PM, The Fuzzy Chef <fuzzy@fuzzychef.org> wro=
te:
>>>> It's too bad you didn't capture a stack backtrace at step #3 or step
>>>> #6. =A0If you manage to reproduce the problem, that would be a good
>>>> thing to try to get.
>>> Well, I never got an actual crash.
>>
>> That's OK - you can still attach gdb and see where it's hung up... =A0it
>> would have been really nice to see what that "hung" drop database
>> thought it was doing...
>
> Yep, sorry. =A0Was trying to get the system working first, and then
> afterwards thought it might be worth reporting.
>
> Anything I can mine out of the logs or files?

I'm not familiar enough to say; but I wonder if you could try to
reproduce the problem on (a copy of) your saved directory.

...Robert