Re: restoreing dumps fail

On Lun 13 May 2002 23:34, Tom Lane wrote:
> =?iso-8859-1?q?Mart=EDn=20Marqu=E9s?= <martin(at)bugs(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar> writes:
> > I'm trying to upgrade from 7.1.3 to 7.2.1 and after makeing a dump,
> > installing the new version (7.2.1) making the initdb as postgres, when I
> > try to dump all the data back to the database, and after some dump the
> > backend dies:
> >
> > NOTICE: Message from PostgreSQL backend:
> > The Postmaster has informed me that some other backend
> > died abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.

I went back to 7.1.3 because the server was in production, and couldn't wait
for me to solve the problem. I'll try to upgrade next week.

> Oh? What's in the postmaster log? Can you get a stack trace from
> the core file that the crashed backend left?

What I would like to know is what to do when I have these problems? Get the
core file and run a strace over it? Run gdb over the core?

Thanks.

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Porqué usar una base de datos relacional cualquiera,
si podés usar PostgreSQL?
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Martín Marqués | mmarques(at)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar
Programador, Administrador, DBA | Centro de Telematica
Universidad Nacional
del Litoral
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