Re: first crash

> "Thomas T. Thai" <tom(at)minnesota(dot)com> writes:
>> I had my first production crash today.
>> PostgreSQL v7.3
>> NetBSD/Alpha 1.6
>
> Why are you not running 7.3.2?

I just loaded up 7.3.2. Will watch it closely to see.

[...]
> chdir(), so it would try to dump core in whatever directory you are in
> when you launch it. Make sure this directory is writable by postgres,
> or you'll get no core...

I did a find starting at / but no core for postmaster.

> Also, did you look to see if there is anything interesting in the
> postmaster log? It could be that this was not a core dump but a panic
> exit, in which case the postmaster would have written a complaint to the
> log before exiting.

Unfortunately I didn't run it with the log option on.

--
Thomas