Hi Tom, Thanks for your reply! I’m having trouble getting the full stack trace since it’s a controlled environment and I need to figure out a way to install all the debug info packages. but for now i have checked all core dumps which all seems crashed at same point. warning: no loadable sections found in added symbol-file system-supplied DSO at 0x7fffe2b31000 Core was generated by `postgres: osm osm_planet [local] ALTER TABLE '. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x0000000000785180 in med3_tuple (a=0x7f31613f1028, b=0x7f31613f1040, c=0xffffffff3ffffffd, cmp_tuple=0x7f43613f1010, state=0x1) at qsort_tuple.c:66 66 { Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install glibc-2.12-1.149.el6_6.5.x86_64 I’ll try get help to get a full stack trace and post here as soon as possible. Thanks Yiqing > On Jul 16, 2015, at 11:14 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Yiqing Jin <yiqing.jin@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I'm trapped with a problem when trying to create an index on a table with >> about 2.8 billion records in it. >> ALTER TABLE ONLY nodes ADD CONSTRAINT pk_nodes PRIMARY KEY (id); >> or >> create index pknode on nodes(id); > >> Postgres terminated with segfault during the proocess. > > That shouldn't happen. Can you get a stack trace from the core dump? > > https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Generating_a_stack_trace_of_a_PostgreSQL_backend > > 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