Tom, Since we host customer data, I have to get OK from the company attorney before I can give you a full "howto create". I've been unable to recreate it without a full database dump. I'm waiting for a call back on that. I also can't recreate it on IA32. I tried to replicate the issue on a uniproc P4/32, but it worked fine there, so it does seem to be something specific about the fact that it's either X86/64 or that it's dual proc. The production server has 4GB of ECC RAM. I can consistently create the problem by dumping and reloading the database to a different PG database, and running it there, so AFAICT I'm not bugging anybody when I run this query. In the meantime, I found the "debuginfo" rpm, and installed it without a hitch. Luckily, it seems to "take effect" without having to restart the PG daemon. (which is busy serving 10-20 people at any given moment...) Again, here's the output from gdb. This looks a bit more useful, I hope this helps! Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. slot_deform_tuple (slot=0xa669c8, natts=36) at heaptuple.c:1262 1262 off = att_addlength(off, thisatt->attlen, tp + off); (gdb) bt #0 slot_deform_tuple (slot=0xa669c8, natts=36) at heaptuple.c:1262 #1 0x000000000043c8f5 in slot_getattr (slot=0xa669c8, attnum=36, isnull=0x7fbfffde87 "") at heaptuple.c:1367 #2 0x000000000047a50a in FormIndexDatum (indexInfo=0xa66b60, slot=0xa669c8, estate=0xa61190, values=0x7fbfffdf10, isnull=0x7fbfffdef0 "") at index.c:962 #3 0x00000000004ebee3 in ExecInsertIndexTuples (slot=0xa669c8, tupleid=0xa6efc4, estate=0xa61190, is_vacuum=0 '\0') at execUtils.c:925 #4 0x00000000004e5265 in ExecutorRun (queryDesc=Variable "queryDesc" is not available. ) at execMain.c:1437 #5 0x0000000000564312 in ProcessQuery (parsetree=Variable "parsetree" is not available. ) at pquery.c:174 #6 0x0000000000565287 in PortalRun (portal=0xa5ed70, count=9223372036854775807, dest=0xa596f8, altdest=0xa596f8, completionTag=0x7fbfffe380 "") at pquery.c:1076 #7 0x0000000000560f8b in exec_simple_query ( query_string=0xa440e0 "INSERT INTO lcclasses (id, schoolyear, modified, entrydate, creator, status, name, location, city, maxclasssize, prerequisites, cost, costnote, coursecode, section, credits, whytake, materialsnote, te"...) at postgres.c:1014 #8 0x0000000000562e0e in PostgresMain (argc=4, argv=0xa0cca0, username=0xa0cc60 "cworksdev") at postgres.c:3168 #9 0x000000000053d316 in ServerLoop () at postmaster.c:2852 #10 0x000000000053ea59 in PostmasterMain (argc=5, argv=0x9ea510) at postmaster.c:943 #11 0x00000000005033c3 in main (argc=5, argv=0x9ea510) at main.c:256 (gdb) continue Continuing. Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. The program no longer exists. ################################################## Postgresql.conf listen_addresses = '127.0.0.1' port = 5432 max_connections = 96 shared_buffers=250000 temp_buffers = 10000 max_prepared_transactions = 0 work_mem = 1024 # min 64, size in KB maintenance_work_mem = 16384 # min 1024, size in KB max_stack_depth = 9240 redirect_stderr = on # Enable capturing of stderr into log log_directory = 'pg_log' # Directory where log files are written log_truncate_on_rotation = on # If on, any existing log file of the same log_rotation_age = 1440 # Automatic rotation of logfiles will log_rotation_size = 0 # Automatic rotation of logfiles will autovacuum = on autovacuum_naptime = 600 lc_messages = 'en_US.UTF-8' # locale for system error message lc_monetary = 'en_US.UTF-8' # locale for monetary formatting lc_numeric = 'en_US.UTF-8' # locale for number formatting lc_time = 'en_US.UTF-8' # locale for time formatting add_missing_from = on -Ben On Wednesday 25 January 2006 11:18, you wrote: > Benjamin Smith <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > OK, here's the output: > > (gdb) continue > > Continuing. > > > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > > 0x000000000043c82c in heap_modifytuple () > > (gdb) > > > // not very hopeful, I'd think // > > You forgot the "bt" part ... although I'm not sure we'd learn a whole > lot more without debug symbols. > > > Can I get a RHES/CENTOS PG 8.1 RPM with the symbols enabled? > > Current Red Hat practice is to put the debug symbols into separate > "debuginfo" RPMs. Hopefully you can find the debuginfo RPM wherever > you got the postgres RPM from. > > regards, tom lane > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978