Re: Troubleshooting cored dumps

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Francisco Reyes wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I got
> psql.core: not in executable format:
> File format not recognized

psql is the program that blew core?   In that case change the above
that reads /full/path/to/postmaster to /full/path/to/psql  and try it.

Vince.
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