Re: Troubleshooting cored dumps

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Francisco Reyes <lists(at)natserv(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql General List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Troubleshooting cored dumps
Date: 2002-04-19 17:45:13
Message-ID: 1673.1019238313@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Francisco Reyes <lists(at)natserv(dot)com> writes:
> How does one go about troubleshooting Core Dumps?
> server sent data ("D" message) without prior row description ("T" message)
> server sent data ("D" message) without prior row description ("T" message)
> server sent data ("D" message) without prior row description ("T" message)
> server sent data ("D" message) without prior row description ("T" message)
> server sent data ("D" message) without prior row description ("T" message)
> server sent data ("D" message) without prior row description ("T" message)
> DEBUG: pq_flush: send() failed: Broken pipe
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I'll save you the trouble: I'll bet that psql ran out of memory for a
huge result set. libpq is not real robust about coping with that :-(.

regards, tom lane

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