Re: postgres server crash

["Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>]

> Hi all,
>  
> I am running DBT2 benchmarks on a 4 way Win 2003 server when 
> the postgres server process crashes. Then I tried on a 1 GB 
> P4 desktop running XP and could reproduce the problem quite 
> often. The error message is at the end of this mail. 
>  
> I did the following to dig more into the problem:
> 
> *	The server crashes with default postgresql.conf parameters 
> *	I tried to get more log info by turned few log params 
> in postgresql.conf file and ran it for only 1 connection. To 
> my surprise there was no crash and the entire DBT2 ran successfully. 
> *	Then I started making the log params one by one default 
> so that I can zero on the log param which is making it pass. 
> I see turning log_min_error_statement to a debug level is not 
> causing server crash for 1 connection. 
> *	Then I tried to increase the no. of connections to 20 
> and see that it crashes always.
> 
> I had run the DBT2 tests on the same box on SLES 9.0 without 
> any problems. Hence I suspect this is a win32 port problem.

Seems reasonable to expact that, yes :)


> It seems the server is crashing on a wait.

What makes you say this?
Any chance you could get a debugger attached to the crashing process and
show us where it dies?


//Magnus