"Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Still, it's quite unclear how bad data read from the stats file could >> have led to an infinite loop. The stats file format is pretty "flat" >> and AFAICS the worst effect of undetected corruption would be to have >> wrong count values for some tables/databases. > True. Is it possible some other bit of the data in the system was > corrupted and freaking out the stats collector? The collector is pretty self-contained by design, so it's hard to see what else would affect it. I'm wondering a bit if the OP's hardware is still flaky :-(. In any case it would sure be interesting to see a few stack traces from the process. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
