On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 08:31:47PM +0000, Arne Roland wrote: > I could take a backup and restore the relevant tables on a throwaway system. You are just suggesting to replace line 728 > elog(FATAL, > "dsa_allocate could not find %zu free pages", npages); > by > elog(PANIC, > "dsa_allocate could not find %zu free pages", npages); > correct? Just for my understanding: why would the shutdown of the whole instance create more helpful logging? You'd also start with pg_ctl -c, which would allow it to dump core, which could be inspected with GDB to show a backtrace and other internals, which up to now nobody (including myself) has been able to provide. Justin