Re: postgres 7.0.3 core dumps

Oops, I did the trace wrong.

<rant>
Why can't gdb -c corefile get a symbol table? It prints out what the
executable was so it must be able to find it.
</rant>

Anyway I look at http://www.selectacast.net/~jks/postgres/gdb3.txt The
backend was in ExecEvalVar () when it crashed.

Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Joseph Shraibman <jks(at)selectacast(dot)net> writes:
> > Postgres has core dumped on me a few in the last few weeks. For complete
> > details of the problem:
> > http://www.selectacast.net/~jks/postgres/
>
> Unfortunately, those core dump files are of no value anywhere except
> on your machine, since they are (a) platform dependent, and (b)
> dependent on your executable, which you said was custom-built.
>
> Could you go into them with gdb and provide stack backtraces?
>
> regards, tom lane

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