Re: "create implicit sequence" crashes postgres

On Tuesday 05 February 2008 11:37:59 Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I guess it would still be good to know why it crashes.  I think the
> reason you're not getting a good backtrace is that you're attempting to
> get it from the client process, which is not the guilty one here.  Same
> for the ulimit setting: you have to apply it to the session running
> postmaster, not psql.  The core file should be located in your "data"
> directory.

Ahh, so there is a core dump!

postgres(at)mcsql1 ~ $ !ul
ulimit -c unlimited
postgres(at)mcsql1 ~ $ !po
postgres -D /var/lib/postgresql/data/

postgres(at)mcsql1 ~ $ psql
Welcome to psql 8.2.6, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

Type: \copyright for distribution terms
\h for help with SQL commands
\? for help with psql commands
\g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
\q to quit

postgres=# CREATE TABLE billing_transaction_items (
id serial NOT NULL,
billing_transaction_id integer NOT NULL,
pricing_term_id integer,
product_id integer NOT NULL,
is_free boolean NOT NULL,
is_visible boolean NOT NULL,
created_at timestamp without time zone NOT NULL,
updated_at timestamp without time zone NOT NULL,
cost numeric(15,4) DEFAULT 0.0 NOT NULL,
tax numeric(15,4) DEFAULT 0.0 NOT NULL,
quoted_cost numeric(15,4) DEFAULT 0.0 NOT NULL,
quoted_tax numeric(15,4) DEFAULT 0.0 NOT NULL
);
server closed the connection unexpectedly
This probably means the server terminated abnormally
before or while processing the request.
The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Failed.
!> \q
postgres(at)mcsql1 ~ $ gdb /usr/bin/postgres /var/lib/postgresql/data/core
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This GDB was configured as "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"...
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
Reading symbols from /lib64/libpam.so.0...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libpam.so.0
Reading symbols from /usr/lib64/libssl.so.0.9.8...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib64/libssl.so.0.9.8
Reading symbols from /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.0.9.8...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.0.9.8
Reading symbols from /lib64/libcrypt.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libcrypt.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib64/libdl.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib64/libm.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libm.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib64/libc.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib64/libnss_compat.so.2...done.
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Reading symbols from /lib64/libnsl.so.1...done.
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Reading symbols from /lib64/libnss_nis.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_nis.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib64/libnss_files.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_files.so.2
Core was generated by `postgres: postgres postgres [local] CR'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0 0x00000000006292bf in pfree (pointer=0x9bba00) at mcxt.c:585
585 mcxt.c: No such file or directory.
in mcxt.c
(gdb)
(gdb)
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00000000006292bf in pfree (pointer=0x9bba00) at mcxt.c:585
#1 0x00000000006115b4 in EmitErrorReport () at elog.c:1746
#2 0x0000000000610b3e in errfinish (dummy=0) at elog.c:390
#3 0x00000000004a4ddc in transformColumnDefinition (pstate=0xa75978, cxt=0x7fff06ee5b50, column=0xa4d190) at analyze.c:1098
#4 0x00000000004a6180 in transformStmt (pstate=0xa757d8, parseTree=0xa75738, extras_before=0x7fff06ee5c00, extras_after=0x7fff06ee5c08) at analyze.c:970
#5 0x00000000004a7a7a in do_parse_analyze (parseTree=0x0, pstate=0xa757d8) at analyze.c:251
#6 0x00000000004a8544 in parse_analyze (parseTree=0xa75738,
sourceText=0xa4c6d0 "CREATE TABLE billing_transaction_items (\n id serial NOT NULL,\n billing_transaction_id integer NOT NULL,\n pricing_term_id integer,\n product_id integer NOT NULL,\n is_free boolean NOT NULL"..., paramTypes=0x0, numParams=0) at analyze.c:173
#7 0x0000000000592f2b in pg_analyze_and_rewrite (parsetree=0xa75738,
query_string=0xa4c6d0 "CREATE TABLE billing_transaction_items (\n id serial NOT NULL,\n billing_transaction_id integer NOT NULL,\n pricing_term_id integer,\n product_id integer NOT NULL,\n is_free boolean NOT NULL"..., paramTypes=0x0, numParams=0) at postgres.c:567
#8 0x000000000059322d in exec_simple_query (
query_string=0xa4c6d0 "CREATE TABLE billing_transaction_items (\n id serial NOT NULL,\n billing_transaction_id integer NOT NULL,\n pricing_term_id integer,\n product_id integer NOT NULL,\n is_free boolean NOT NULL"...) at postgres.c:875
#9 0x0000000000594bec in PostgresMain (argc=4, argv=0x9bb0c0, username=0x9bb080 "postgres") at postgres.c:3424
#10 0x000000000056c058 in ServerLoop () at postmaster.c:2932
#11 0x000000000056dc26 in PostmasterMain (argc=3, argv=0x9b69e0) at postmaster.c:966
#12 0x0000000000529133 in main (argc=3, argv=0x9b69e0) at main.c:188
(gdb)

Means nothing to me...

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