Re: [ADMIN] crash help, pgsql 7.2.1 on RH7.3

2002-11-23 Thread Tom Lane
Tim Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but, uh, what am i going to do with a core file? i would need a non-stripped postgres binary first, right? Yup, you would. I'd recommend building from source so that you can add both --enable-debug and --enable-cassert to the configure flags. (It may

Re: [ADMIN] crash help, pgsql 7.2.1 on RH7.3

2002-11-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday 23 November 2002 12:10, Tom Lane wrote: Tim Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but, uh, what am i going to do with a core file? i would need a non-stripped postgres binary first, right? Yup, you would. I'd recommend building from source so that you can add both --enable-debug and

Re: [ADMIN] crash help, pgsql 7.2.1 on RH7.3

2002-11-23 Thread Tom Lane
Lamar Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday 23 November 2002 12:10, Tom Lane wrote: Yup, you would. I'd recommend building from source so that you can add both --enable-debug and --enable-cassert to the configure flags. (It may actually be possible to do that with the SRPM distro, but I

Re: [ADMIN] crash help, pgsql 7.2.1 on RH7.3

2002-11-22 Thread Tim Lynch
] crash help, pgsql 7.2.1 on RH7.3 : I said: : Tim Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : i don't see a core file. : : Check that you are starting the postmaster with ulimit -c unlimited; : this is not the default on most Linuxen, so you may have to add that to : the start script. Also note

Re: [ADMIN] crash help, pgsql 7.2.1 on RH7.3

2002-11-22 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday 21 November 2002 20:05, Tim Lynch wrote: increase their ulimits - call me old fasioned... what's next, regular user negative renice?!? anyways... Actually yes. but, uh, what am i going to do with a core file? i would need a non-stripped postgres binary first, right? If you

[ADMIN] crash help, pgsql 7.2.1 on RH7.3

2002-11-20 Thread Tim Lynch
running pgsql 7.2.1 on redhat7.3 SMP. installed a hacked glibc to fix the mktime() timezone problem for dates 1970 (http://rpms.arvin.dk/glibc/rh73/i686/) three times now the backend process has unexpectedly quit. what happens is the postmaster process and the stats processes disappear and only

Re: [ADMIN] crash help, pgsql 7.2.1 on RH7.3

2002-11-20 Thread Tom Lane
Tim Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: running pgsql 7.2.1 on redhat7.3 SMP. installed a hacked glibc to fix the mktime() timezone problem for dates 1970 (http://rpms.arvin.dk/glibc/rh73/i686/) three times now the backend process has unexpectedly quit. what happens is the postmaster process

Re: [ADMIN] crash help, pgsql 7.2.1 on RH7.3

2002-11-20 Thread Tom Lane
I said: Tim Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i don't see a core file. Check that you are starting the postmaster with ulimit -c unlimited; this is not the default on most Linuxen, so you may have to add that to the start script. Also note that the postmaster never does a chdir, so if it