On Monday 01 March 2010 @ 18:29, Tom Lane wrote: > "Ed L." <pgsql@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > That did the trick. Thank you very much, Sensei. > > I'd still like to know about platform etc. I see that we > shouldn't be allowing a username to trigger @-file expansion, > but even with that it's not clear how it turned into an > infinite loop; and as I said, I can't reproduce that here. The original problem occurred on that CentOS box, but I just reproduced it on a new cluster on Ubuntu running LVM but no RAID. Here's the transcript: ed@duke:~/test$ uname -a Linux duke 2.6.31-15-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 10 14:53:52 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux ed@duke:~/test$ export PGPORT=9000 ed@duke:~/test$ w^C ed@duke:~/test$ svi ed@duke:~/test$ export PGDATA=`pwd`/data ed@duke:~/test$ initdb --locale=C -D $PGDATA The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "ed". This user must also own the server process. The database cluster will be initialized with locale C. The default database encoding has accordingly been set to SQL_ASCII. The default text search configuration will be set to "english". creating directory /home/ed/test/data ... ok creating subdirectories ... ok selecting default max_connections ... 100 selecting default shared_buffers/max_fsm_pages ... 32MB/204800 creating configuration files ... ok creating template1 database in /home/ed/test/data/base/1 ... ok initializing pg_authid ... ok initializing dependencies ... ok creating system views ... ok loading system objects' descriptions ... ok creating conversions ... ok creating dictionaries ... ok setting privileges on built-in objects ... ok creating information schema ... ok vacuuming database template1 ... ok copying template1 to template0 ... ok copying template1 to postgres ... ok WARNING: enabling "trust" authentication for local connections You can change this by editing pg_hba.conf or using the -A option the next time you run initdb. Success. You can now start the database server using: postgres -D /home/ed/test/data or pg_ctl -D /home/ed/test/data -l logfile start ed@duke:~/test$ pg_ctl -D /home/ed/test/data -l logfile start server starting ed@duke:~/test$ psql -c "select version()" psql: FATAL: database "ed" does not exist ed@duke:~/test$ create^C ed@duke:~/test$ createdb ed@duke:~/test$ psql -c "select version()" version ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PostgreSQL 8.3.9 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (Ubuntu 4.4.1-4ubuntu8) 4.4.1 (1 row) ed@duke:~/test$ createuser "@" with login createuser: too many command-line arguments (first is "with") Try "createuser --help" for more information. ed@duke:~/test$ psql -c "create user \"@\" with login" CREATE ROLE ed@duke:~/test$ cat data/global/ 1136 1214 1260 2396 2672 2694 2698 2844 2847 pg_database 1137 1232 1261 2397 2676 2695 2842 2845 pg_auth pgstat.stat 1213 1233 1262 2671 2677 2697 2843 2846 pg_control ed@duke:~/test$ cat data/global/pg_auth "@" "" "" "ed" "" "" ed@duke:~/test$ pg_ctl -D $PGDATA stop waiting for server to shut down...........................................^C ed@duke:~/test$ ^C ed@duke:~/test$ ^C ed@duke:~/test$ ^C ed@duke:~/test$ pg_ctl -D $PGDATA -m fast stop waiting for server to shut down.............^C ed@duke:~/test$ ^C ed@duke:~/test$ ps augxwwwf | grep postma ed 8419 0.0 0.0 7336 868 pts/4 S+ 18:36 0:00 \_ grep postma ohsdba 6115 0.0 0.3 503692 28028 pts/0 S 18:03 0:00 postmaster -D /users/ohsdba/dbclusters/ohs/postgresql-8.3.x/data -i -p 9001 ed@duke:~/test$ gdb `which postgre^C ed@duke:~/test$ pg_ctl -D /home/ed/test/data -l logfile start pg_ctl: another server might be running; trying to start server anyway pg_ctl: could not start server Examine the log output. ed@duke:~/test$ cat logfile LOG: database system was shut down at 2010-03-01 18:34:25 MST LOG: autovacuum launcher started LOG: database system is ready to accept connections FATAL: database "ed" does not exist WARNING: worker took too long to start; cancelled FATAL: lock file "postmaster.pid" already exists HINT: Is another postmaster (PID 8203) running in data directory "/home/ed/test/data"? ed@duke:~/test$ ps augxwwwf | grep 8203 ed 8465 0.0 0.0 7336 868 pts/4 S+ 18:37 0:00 \_ grep 8203 ed 8203 73.7 0.0 63080 4248 pts/4 R 18:34 2:07 /opt/pgsql/installs/postgresql-8.3.9/bin/postgres -D /home/ed/test/data ed@duke:~/test$ gdb `which postgres` GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0-ubuntu Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu". For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>... Reading symbols from /opt/pgsql/installs/postgresql-8.3.9/bin/postgres...done. (gdb) attach 8203 Attaching to program: /opt/pgsql/installs/postgresql-8.3.9/bin/postgres, process 8203 Reading symbols from /lib/libcrypt.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libcrypt.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libm.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_compat.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_compat.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libnsl.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnsl.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_nis.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_nis.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_files.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_files.so.2 0x00007f3c58f9ea30 in read () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x00007f3c58f9ea30 in read () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x00007f3c58f3ead8 in _IO_file_underflow () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x00007f3c58f4065e in _IO_default_uflow () from /lib/libc.so.6 #3 0x00007f3c58f3741b in getc () from /lib/libc.so.6 #4 0x00000000005460d8 in T.136 () #5 0x00000000005466e4 in tokenize_file () #6 0x00000000005467ed in tokenize_file () #7 0x0000000000546cef in load_role () #8 0x00000000005937ed in sigusr1_handler () #9 <signal handler called> #10 0x00007f3c58fa5373 in select () from /lib/libc.so.6 #11 0x0000000000591cc2 in ServerLoop () #12 0x0000000000594467 in PostmasterMain () #13 0x000000000054a9b0 in main () (gdb) fin Run till exit from #0 0x00007f3c58f9ea30 in read () from /lib/libc.so.6 0x00007f3c58f3ead8 in _IO_file_underflow () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) fin Run till exit from #0 0x00007f3c58f3ead8 in _IO_file_underflow () from /lib/libc.so.6 0x00007f3c58f4065e in _IO_default_uflow () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) fin Run till exit from #0 0x00007f3c58f4065e in _IO_default_uflow () from /lib/libc.so.6 0x00007f3c58f3741b in getc () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) fin Run till exit from #0 0x00007f3c58f3741b in getc () from /lib/libc.so.6 0x00000000005460d8 in T.136 () (gdb) fin Run till exit from #0 0x00000000005460d8 in T.136 () 0x00000000005466e4 in tokenize_file () (gdb) fin Run till exit from #0 0x00000000005466e4 in tokenize_file () (Infinite loop here...) Program terminated with signal SIGKILL, Killed. The program no longer exists. (gdb) The program is not running. (gdb) The program is not running. (gdb) quit ed@duke:~/test$ uname -a Linux duke 2.6.31-15-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 10 14:53:52 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux ed@duke:~/test$ uname -a Linux duke 2.6.31-15-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 10 14:53:52 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux ed@duke:~/test$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/duke-root 468727296 229717260 215199988 52% / udev 4096736 320 4096416 1% /dev none 4096736 1280 4095456 1% /dev/shm none 4096736 156 4096580 1% /var/run none 4096736 0 4096736 0% /var/lock none 4096736 0 4096736 0% /lib/init/rw /dev/sda5 233335 47309 173578 22% /boot /dev/sr0 388 388 0 100% /media/cdrw -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general