On Tuesday May 9 2006 3:07 pm, Tom Lane wrote: > "Ed L." <pgsql@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > from /opt/pgsql/installs/postgresql-7.3.4/bin/postmaster > > (gdb) bt > > #0 0x12d288 in InitBufferPoolAccess () > > from /opt/pgsql/installs/postgresql-7.3.4/bin/postmaster > > Error accessing memory address 0x0: Invalid argument. > > Right offhand I'd imagine that the calloc() call failed and > returned NULL --- leastwise it's hard to see how else that > routine could crash. Could your machine be nearly out of > memory? Quite likely. It turns out we had a rogue spike of 1400 processes at that time, so that makes perfect sense. Thanks, Ed
