On 09/23/2011 01:45 PM, Burgholzer, Robert (DEQ) wrote: > Joe - it appears that it ALWAYS involves pLR - even a simple median call > has caused it, though I must say it is something that is calculating the > median of somewhere around 10-20,000 pieces of data if that makes any > difference. I would be delighted to run any kind of debugging necessary > and share the info. I have an identical system that can reproduce the > errors (I am pretty certain that they HAVE previously). What I DON'T > have is any knowledge of the stack-trace/debugger things, but I'm > willing to learn, and I have a sysadmin who may be able to lend a hand. There is some good information about using gdb with postgres here: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Getting_a_stack_trace_of_a_running_PostgreSQL_backend_on_Linux/BSD If you need a hand, I would be happy to help you through the debugging via phone or even log in remotely if you can allow it. Just contact me off-list if you want to pursue that. Note that I made a new PL/R release just a few weeks ago which fixed several known crash-bugs. In particular these two pop out at me: - Fix missing calls to UNPROTECT. - Don't try to free an array element value when the array element is NULL Joe -- Joe Conway credativ LLC: http://www.credativ.us Linux, PostgreSQL, and general Open Source Training, Service, Consulting, & 24x7 Support -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin