Thanks, Tom. Forwarded from pgsql-performance. Working on stack
trace. perl -V:
> perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration:
Platform:
osname=solaris, osvers=2.10, archname=i86pc-solaris
uname='sunos katana7 5.10 generic_118855-15 i86pc i386 i86pc '
config_args='-de -A prepend:libswanted=db
-Dlocincpth=/usr/local/include/db_185
-Dloclibpth=/usr/local/lib/db_185 -Dcc=gcc
-Dprefix=/usr/local/stow/perl-5.8.8'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef
usemultiplicity=undef
useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='gcc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
-Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include/db_185
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV
-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV
-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV',
optimize='-O',
cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement
-I/usr/local/include/db_185'
ccversion='', gccversion='3.4.3
(csl-sol210-3_4-branch+sol_rpath)', gccosandvers='solaris2.10'
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
lseeksize=8
alignbytes=4, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib/db_185 '
libpth=/usr/local/lib/db_185 /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib /usr/local/lib
libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc
perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc
libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
gnulibc_version=''
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-G -L/usr/local/lib/db_185'
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV
USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO
Built under solaris
Compiled at Aug 29 2006 21:33:23
@INC:
/usr/local/stow/perl-5.8.8/lib/5.8.8/i86pc-solaris
/usr/local/stow/perl-5.8.8/lib/5.8.8
/usr/local/stow/perl-5.8.8/lib/site_perl/5.8.8/i86pc-solaris
/usr/local/stow/perl-5.8.8/lib/site_perl/5.8.8
/usr/local/stow/perl-5.8.8/lib/site_perl
.
>
Sam
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sam Stearns <samtstearns@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> I have a SELECT query that runs no problem standalone but when running
>> within a perl script it intermittently core dumps. Random, no pattern
>> to the timing of the core dumps. The perl script processes the rows
>> from the query, if the rows satisfy a condition then the perl script
>> adds the rows to another table. When the script works it runs for
>> about a minute. If the script fails, it runs for about 5 minutes and
>> core dumps. The core dump is in the perl error handling routines. We
>> suspect the bug is related to how the perl postgres libraries interact
>> with postgres.
>
> Can you get a stack trace from one of the core dumps?
>
> Also, exactly which perl version are you using, and with what build
> options? ("perl -V" output would be a good answer here.)
>
> BTW, this seems pretty off-topic for pgsql-performance.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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