On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Tomas Vondra <tv@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dne 21.4.2011 07:16, Phoenix Kiula napsal(a): >> Tomas, >> >> I did a crash log with the strace for PID of the index command as you >> suggested. >> >> Here's the output: >> http://www.heypasteit.com/clip/WNR >> >> Also including below, but because this will wrap etc, you can look at >> the link above. >> >> Thanks for any ideas or pointers! >> >> >> >> Process 15900 attached - interrupt to quit > > Nope, that's the "psql" process - you need to attach to the backend > process that's created to handle the connection. Whenever you create a > connection (from a psql), a new backend process is forked to handle that > single connection - this is the process you need to strace. > > You can either see that in 'ps ax' (the PID is usually +1 with respect > to the psql process), or you can do this > > SELECT pg_backend_pid(); > > as that will give you PID of the backend for the current connection. Thanks. Did that. The crash.log is a large-ish file, about 24KB. Here's the last 10 lines though. Does this help? ~ > tail -10 /root/crash.log read(58, "`\1\0\0\230\337\0\343\1\0\0\0P\0T\r\0 \3 \374\236\2\2T\215\312\1\354\235\32\2"..., 8192) = 8192 write(97, "213.156.60\0\0 \0\0\0\37\0\364P\3\0\34@\22\0\0\000210."..., 8192) = 8192 read(58, "`\1\0\0\274\362\0\343\1\0\0\0T\0\210\r\0 \3 0\217\352\1\240\236\272\0024\235\322\2"..., 8192) = 8192 read(58, "[\1\0\0\354)c*\1\0\0\0T\0\214\r\0 \3 \254\236\242\2\340\220\342\2\\\235\232\2"..., 8192) = 8192 read(58, "\\\1\0\0\200\245\207\32\1\0\0\0\\\0\340\r\0 \3 \237\272\1\304\235\262\2\340\215\322\1"..., 8192) = 8192 read(58, "\350\0\0\0\274\311x\323\1\0\0\0\\\0000\r\0 \3 \200\236\372\2(\235\252\2\34\234\22\2"..., 8192) = 8192 read(58, ";\1\0\0|#\265\30\1\0\0\0`\0h\r\0 \3 \324\236R\2\314\235\n\2h\215\362\1"..., 8192) = 8192 read(58, "c\1\0\0000\24%u\1\0\0\0\230\0\210\r\0 \3 \240\226\32\16\260\235\252\1p\222Z\10"..., 8192) = 8192 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- Process 17161 detached The full crash.log file is here if needed: https://www.yousendit.com/download/ VnBxcmxjNDJlM1JjR0E9PQ Btw, this happens when I try to create an index on one of the columns in my table. Just before this, I had created another index on modify_date (a timestamp column) and it went fine. Does that mean anything? Thanks -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general