Geoffrey wrote: > We are trying to track down an issue with our PostgreSQL application. > We are running PostgreSQL 7.4.13 on Red Hat Enterprise ES 3. > > We have a situation where the postgres backend process drops core and > dies. We've tracked this to an unusual situation where a sequence value > that is being created during the process that is causing the core file > generation. The thing that is bizarre is that the sequence value skips > 30+ entries. Sequences are WAL-logged in chunks. So if you ask for a number and then the process crashes, on recovery the sequence will resume generating numbers at the start of the next chunk. I very much doubt that this causes the crash itself; you should keep looking. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
