Re: Troubleshooting cored dumps

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Francisco Reyes wrote:

> How does one go about troubleshooting Core Dumps?
> server sent data ("D" message) without prior row description ("T" message)
> server sent data ("D" message) without prior row description ("T" message)
> server sent data ("D" message) without prior row description ("T" message)
> server sent data ("D" message) without prior row description ("T" message)
> server sent data ("D" message) without prior row description ("T" message)
> server sent data ("D" message) without prior row description ("T" message)
> DEBUG:  pq_flush: send() failed: Broken pipe
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)

gdb /full/path/to/postmaster /full/path/to/corefile

You can change either full paths to relative if you want.

Then at the prompt:

gdb> where

And you'll get the necessary info - provided debugging symbols were
compiled in, but even if not you may get an idea of what's wrong.

Vince.
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