Re: BUG #3763: crash after create table with primary keydefined

Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 10:12 +0000, migo wrote:
>> => CREATE TABLE phpbb_acl_roles_data ( role_id INT4 DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL
>> CHECK (role_id >= 0), auth_option_id INT4 DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL CHECK
>> (auth_option_id >= 0), auth_setting INT2 DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY
>> (role_id, auth_option_id) );
>> 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: Succeeded.
>> wolni=>
>>
>>
>> In logs after this:
>> Nov 20 11:02:04 www postgres[32757]: [4-1] wolni>NOTICE: CREATE TABLE /
>> PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index "phpbb_acl_roles_data_pkey" for
>> table
>> Nov 20 11:02:04 www postgres[32757]: [4-2] "phpbb_acl_roles_data"
>> Nov 20 11:02:04 www postgres[32758]: [2-1] [unknown]>LOG: connection
>> received: host=[local]
>> Nov 20 11:02:04 www postgres[32758]: [3-1] wolni>LOG: connection
>> authorized: user=wolni database=wolni
>> Nov 20 11:02:04 www postgres[32731]: [2-1] >LOG: server process (PID 32757)
>> was terminated by signal 11
>> Nov 20 11:02:04 www postgres[32731]: [3-1] >LOG: terminating any other
>> active server processes
>> Nov 20 11:02:04 www postgres[32758]: [4-1] wolni>WARNING: terminating
>> connection because of crash of another server process
>
> Looks to me that the process that crashed was not the process that
> issued the CREATE TABLE command. So it could be something else entirely.

To me it does look like it was the CREATE TABLE that crashed. The NOTICE
shows that it's process ID 32757 that's running the CREATE TABLE, and
the LOG line later on says that that's the process that crashed.

> Is this behaviour repeatable?

I couldn't reproduce this on my laptop with 8.2.4. Migo, is it possible
for you to get a core dump and a back trace out of it? Is there anything
unusual about the system / compiler / compiler options used?

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