Re: postgres dies while doing vacuum analyze

Manuel Sugawara <masm(at)fciencias(dot)unam(dot)mx> writes:
> [ vacuum analyze dies ]
> It is running on Redhat Linux 7.1 i686 with 2.4.2-2 kernel.
> Here is the back trace from gdb

> (gdb) bt
> #0 strcoll () at strcoll.c:229

We've heard reports before of strcoll() crashing on apparently valid
input. It seems to be a Red Hat-specific problem; the three reports
I have in my notes are from people running RH 7.0 (check the archives
from 1/1/01, 1/24/01, 3/1/01 if you want to see the prior reports).

It's possible that Postgres is doing something that confuses RH's
locale library, but I dunno what. Since no other platform is reporting
it, it could also be a plain old bug in that locale library.

We need some RH-er to burrow in with a debugger and figure out what's
going wrong. The previous reporters don't seem to have done anything;
are you the man to fix it?

regards, tom lane