"Rajaram J" <rajarj@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm using Postgres V 7.4.14 on HPUX 11.31 box. While doing a load test there > was a core generated not sure why. Can you please help. What sort of "load test" were you doing exactly? > #5 0x44f01b0:0 in s_lock_stuck () at s_lock.c:36 > #6 0x44f02b0:0 in s_lock () at s_lock.c:94 > #7 0x41dc800:0 in XLogInsert () at xlog.c:637 s_lock_stuck is not an impossible case, if you are stressing the system to say 100 or 1000 times past its design capacity. With a version as old as 7.4.x, I frankly wouldn't even bother to investigate it. Please do your experimentation on something recent, like 8.2.x ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly