Re: Various intermittent bugs/instability - how to debug?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Frederik Ramm" <frederik(dot)ramm(at)geofabrik(dot)de>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Various intermittent bugs/instability - how to debug?
Date: 2008-09-09 19:57:20
Message-ID: 24031.1220990240@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Frederik Ramm
>> I hope you can help me with a problem I'm having - I'm stuck and don't
>> know how to debug this further.

> You definitely are suffering from db corruption, and given the number
> and differing type of errors, it would seem unlikely that pgsql has a
> load of bugs only you are seeing. OTOH, if the bug is hidden deep in
> postgis or something, then who knows...

Yeah, I would wonder about a postgis bug. Another thing to look into
is kernel bugs --- I gather that these boxes are running more or less
the same kernel? If there's something about your hardware that the
kernel doesn't quite grok, all sorts of fun could ensue.

regards, tom lane

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