Re: free(): invalid pointer , when to dumping data to a new server

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Lars Aksel Opsahl <Lars(dot)Opsahl(at)nibio(dot)no>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, "pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: free(): invalid pointer , when to dumping data to a new server
Date: 2020-10-27 16:04:59
Message-ID: 1058472.1603814699@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Lars Aksel Opsahl <Lars(dot)Opsahl(at)nibio(dot)no> writes:
> Here is the new stackstrace not too much info that helps mee thou.

This is probably the reason why "bt" is producing garbage:

> BFD: warning: /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.postmaster.26.6f7d98107f544085a41c6f8b876418d0.298120.1603810048000000 is truncated: expected core file size >= 2326896640, found: 2147483648

So the core file is being truncated at 2GB, but the process image was a
little bit larger than that. You need to get a complete core file.

First thing I'd check is the "ulimit -c" setting that the postmaster is
being started under. I see that systemd is capturing the core dump,
so it could also be that there's some systemd configuration you need
to adjust ("man systemd-coredump" might help here).

regards, tom lane

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