Re: No core file generated after PostgresNode->start

2020-05-13 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Paquier  writes:
> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 04:15:26PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:48 PM Tom Lane  wrote:
>>> I have a standing note to check the permissions on /cores after any macOS
>>> upgrade, because every so often Apple decides that that directory ought to
>>> be read-only.

>> Thanks, that was my problem.

> Was that a recent problem with Catalina and/or Mojave?  I have never
> seen an actual problem up to 10.13.

I don't recall exactly when I started seeing this, but it was at least
a couple years back, so maybe Mojave.  I think it's related to Apple's
efforts to make the root filesystem read-only.  (It's not apparent to
me how come I can write in /cores when "mount" clearly reports

/dev/disk1s1 on / (apfs, local, read-only, journaled)

but nonetheless it works, as long as the directory permissions permit.)

regards, tom lane




Re: No core file generated after PostgresNode->start

2020-05-13 Thread Michael Paquier
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 04:15:26PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:48 PM Tom Lane  wrote:
>> I have a standing note to check the permissions on /cores after any macOS
>> upgrade, because every so often Apple decides that that directory ought to
>> be read-only.
> 
> Thanks, that was my problem.

Was that a recent problem with Catalina and/or Mojave?  I have never
seen an actual problem up to 10.13.
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Re: No core file generated after PostgresNode->start

2020-05-12 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:48 PM Tom Lane  wrote:
> I have a standing note to check the permissions on /cores after any macOS
> upgrade, because every so often Apple decides that that directory ought to
> be read-only.

Thanks, that was my problem.

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Re: No core file generated after PostgresNode->start

2020-05-12 Thread Andy Fan
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 3:36 AM Robert Haas  wrote:

> On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 11:21 PM Andy Fan 
> wrote:
> > Looks this doesn't mean a crash.   If the test case(subscription/t/
> 013_partition.pl)
> > failed,  test framework kill some process, which leads the above
> message.  So you can
> > ignore this issue now.  Thanks
>
> I think there might be a real issue here someplace, though, because I
> couldn't get a core dump last week when I did have a crash happening
> locally.


I forget to say the failure happens on my modified version, I guess this is
what
happened in my case (subscription/t/013_partition.pl ).

1.  It need to read data from slave, however it get ERROR,  elog(ERROR, ..)
rather crash.
2.  The test framework knows the case failed, so it kill the primary in
some way.
3.  The primary raises the error below.

2020-05-11 09:37:40.778 CST [69541] sub_viaroot WARNING:  terminating
connection because of crash of another server process

2020-05-11 09:37:40.778 CST [69541] sub_viaroot DETAIL:  The postmaster
has commanded this server process to roll back the current transaction and
exit,
because another server process exited abnormally and possibly corrupted
shared memory.

Finally I get the root cause  by looking into the error log in slave.
After I fix
my bug, the issue gone.

Best Regards
Andy Fan


Re: No core file generated after PostgresNode->start

2020-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas  writes:
> On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 4:24 PM Antonin Houska  wrote:
>> Could "sysctl kernel.core_pattern" be the problem? I discovered this setting
>> sometime when I also couldn't find the core dump on linux.

> Well, I'm running on macOS and the core files normally show up in
> /cores, but in this case they didn't.

I have a standing note to check the permissions on /cores after any macOS
upgrade, because every so often Apple decides that that directory ought to
be read-only.

regards, tom lane




Re: No core file generated after PostgresNode->start

2020-05-11 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 4:24 PM Antonin Houska  wrote:
> Could "sysctl kernel.core_pattern" be the problem? I discovered this setting
> sometime when I also couldn't find the core dump on linux.

Well, I'm running on macOS and the core files normally show up in
/cores, but in this case they didn't.

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Robert Haas
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Re: No core file generated after PostgresNode->start

2020-05-11 Thread Antonin Houska
Robert Haas  wrote:

> On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 11:21 PM Andy Fan  wrote:
> > Looks this doesn't mean a crash.   If the test 
> > case(subscription/t/013_partition.pl)
> > failed,  test framework kill some process, which leads the above message.  
> > So you can
> > ignore this issue now.  Thanks
> 
> I think there might be a real issue here someplace, though, because I
> couldn't get a core dump last week when I did have a crash happening
> locally. I didn't poke into it very hard though so I never figured out
> exactly why not, but ulimit -c unlimited didn't help.

Could "sysctl kernel.core_pattern" be the problem? I discovered this setting
sometime when I also couldn't find the core dump on linux.


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Re: No core file generated after PostgresNode->start

2020-05-11 Thread Robert Haas
On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 11:21 PM Andy Fan  wrote:
> Looks this doesn't mean a crash.   If the test 
> case(subscription/t/013_partition.pl)
> failed,  test framework kill some process, which leads the above message.  So 
> you can
> ignore this issue now.  Thanks

I think there might be a real issue here someplace, though, because I
couldn't get a core dump last week when I did have a crash happening
locally. I didn't poke into it very hard though so I never figured out
exactly why not, but ulimit -c unlimited didn't help.

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company




Re: No core file generated after PostgresNode->start

2020-05-10 Thread Andy Fan
On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 9:48 AM Andy Fan  wrote:

> Hi:
>
>
> 2020-05-11 09:37:40.778 CST [69541] sub_viaroot WARNING:  terminating
> connection because of crash of another server process
>
> Looks this doesn't mean a crash.   If the test case(subscription/t/
013_partition.pl)
failed,  test framework kill some process, which leads the above message.
So you can
ignore this issue now.  Thanks

Best Regards
Andy Fan


No core file generated after PostgresNode->start

2020-05-10 Thread Andy Fan
Hi:

When I run make -C subscription check,  then I see the following logs
in ./tmp_check/log/013_partition_publisher.log

2020-05-11 09:37:40.778 CST [69541] sub_viaroot WARNING:  terminating
connection because of crash of another server process

2020-05-11 09:37:40.778 CST [69541] sub_viaroot DETAIL:  The postmaster
has commanded this server process to roll back the current transaction and
exit,
because another server process exited abnormally and possibly corrupted
shared memory.

However there is no core file generated. In my other cases(like start pg
manually with bin/postgres xxx) can  generate core file successfully at
the same machine.  What might be the problem for PostgresNode case?

I tried this modification, but it doesn't help.

--- a/src/test/perl/PostgresNode.pm
+++ b/src/test/perl/PostgresNode.pm
@@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ sub start

# Note: We set the cluster_name here, not in
postgresql.conf (in
# sub init) so that it does not get copied to standbys.
-   $ret = TestLib::system_log('pg_ctl', '-D', $self->data_dir,
'-l',
+   $ret = TestLib::system_log('pg_ctl', "-c", '-D',
$self->data_dir, '-l',
$self->logfile, '-o', "--cluster-name=$name",
'start');
}

Best Regards
Andy Fan