That would result in nonsensical gdb output, most likely; but Glauco's
trace is internally consistent enough that I doubt gdb is lying to us.
In any case, the crash is an observable fact :-(
We are pretty sure that the same binary that crashed was using on `gdb` command. More specifically, the path used was `/usr/pgsql-9.6/bin/postmaster`, and we were running 9.6.6 (most recent 9.6 minor release today) for a few weeks, so there shouldn't have any upgrade on the binaries since the server was up, specially because we restarted the service in order to allow core dump creation, this is not the first crash (although the only one with core dump generated so far), we can send new gdb stack if it happens again.
More information:
$ uname -a
Linux pg-iii.br 3.10.0-514.10.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 3 00:04:05 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ /usr/pgsql-9.6/bin/pg_config
BINDIR = /usr/pgsql-9.6/bin
DOCDIR = /usr/pgsql-9.6/doc
HTMLDIR = /usr/pgsql-9.6/doc/html
INCLUDEDIR = /usr/pgsql-9.6/include
PKGINCLUDEDIR = /usr/pgsql-9.6/include
INCLUDEDIR-SERVER = /usr/pgsql-9.6/include/server
LIBDIR = /usr/pgsql-9.6/lib
PKGLIBDIR = /usr/pgsql-9.6/lib
LOCALEDIR = /usr/pgsql-9.6/share/locale
MANDIR = /usr/pgsql-9.6/share/man
SHAREDIR = /usr/pgsql-9.6/share
SYSCONFDIR = /etc/sysconfig/pgsql
PGXS = /usr/pgsql-9.6/lib/pgxs/src/makefiles/pgxs.mk
CONFIGURE = '--enable-rpath' '--prefix=/usr/pgsql-9.6' '--includedir=/usr/pgsql-9.6/include' '--mandir=/usr/pgsql-9.6/share/man' '--datadir=/usr/pgsql-9.6/share' '--libdir=/usr/pgsql-9.6/lib' '--with-perl' '--with-python' '--with-tcl' '--with-tclconfig=/usr/lib64' '--with-openssl' '--with-pam' '--with-gssapi' '--with-includes=/usr/include' '--with-libraries=/usr/lib64' '--enable-nls' '--enable-dtrace' '--with-uuid=e2fs' '--with-libxml' '--with-libxslt' '--with-ldap' '--with-selinux' '--with-systemd' '--with-system-tzdata=/usr/share/zoneinfo' '--sysconfdir=/etc/sysconfig/pgsql' '--docdir=/usr/pgsql-9.6/doc' '--htmldir=/usr/pgsql-9.6/doc/html' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,--as-needed'
CC = gcc
CPPFLAGS = -DFRONTEND -D_GNU_SOURCE -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include
CFLAGS = -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -fexcess-precision=standard -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic
CFLAGS_SL = -fPIC
LDFLAGS = -L../../src/common -Wl,--as-needed -L/usr/lib64 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-rpath,'/usr/pgsql-9.6/lib',--enable-new-dtags
LDFLAGS_EX =
LDFLAGS_SL =
LIBS = -lpgcommon -lpgport -lselinux -lxslt -lxml2 -lpam -lssl -lcrypto -lgssapi_krb5 -lz -lreadline -lrt -lcrypt -ldl -lm
VERSION = PostgreSQL 9.6.6
Regards,
Glauco
