Re: pg_dump crashing

On 03/15/2016 08:10 AM, Matthias Schmitt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> since two weeks I am trying to get PostgreSQL 9.5.1 to run on Debian 8.3. Everything is fine except the daily backup. When calling pg_dump as part of a cron job pg_dump crashes:
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> 2016-03-15 01:00:02 CETFATAL: semctl(23232524, 3, SETVAL, 0) failed: Invalid argument
> 2016-03-15 01:00:02 CETLOG: server process (PID 22279) exited with exit code 1
> 2016-03-15 01:00:02 CETLOG: terminating any other active server processes
> 2016-03-15 01:00:02 CETWARNING: terminating connection because of crash of another server process
> 2016-03-15 01:00:02 CETDETAIL: The postmaster has commanded this server process to roll back the current transaction and exit, because another server process exited abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.
> 2016-03-15 01:00:02 CETHINT: In a moment you should be able to reconnect to the database and repeat your command.
> 2016-03-15 01:00:02 CETLOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing
> 2016-03-15 01:00:02 CETLOG: could not remove shared memory segment "/PostgreSQL.1804289383": No such file or directory
> 2016-03-15 01:00:02 CETLOG: semctl(22839296, 0, IPC_RMID, ...) failed: Invalid argument
> 2016-03-15 01:00:02 CETLOG: semctl(22872065, 0, IPC_RMID, ...) failed: Invalid argument
> 2016-03-15 01:00:02 CETLOG: semctl(22904834, 0, IPC_RMID, ...) failed: Invalid argument
> …
>
> I am calling pg_dump in my cronjob like this:
> su - mmppostgres -c "/Users/…/bin/pg_dump -p 5433 mydatabase_1_0_0 > /my_backup_path/mydatabase_1_0_0.dump"
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> After the crash the database runs in recovery mode. A restart of the database brings everything back to normal.
> This crash is always reproducible and occurs every night during backup. When calling the same command via the command line everything run fine. In the system log I can see:
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Is the command you run via the command line exactly the same, including
the su -?

What user are you running the cronjob as?

How do you supply the password for the mmppostgres user?

> Any ideas where to continue my search?
>
> Best regards
>
> Matthias Schmitt
>
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