Re: Data Corruption Errors

On 27/9/18 3:39 μ.μ., Ferrell, Denise SDC wrote:
> Using Linux/PostgreSQL 9.5 & setup on a VM.
>
> I'm receiving the following errors during an insert using a function but this does not happen every time. When this does occur the database/system is unavailable until the processes are killed or the service is restarted.
>
> "LOG: server process (PID xxxxx) was terminated by signal 9: Killed
> DETAIL: Failed process was running
> select insert_data ($1, $2,....)
> WARNING: terminating connection because of crash of another server process
> DETAIL: 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.
> HINT: In a moment you should be able to reconnect ....
> LOG: connection received
> FATAL: the database system is in recovery mode"

Did your DB eventually recover? Have you ruled reasons like OOM, non-optimal vm.swapiness , etc ?

>
> The last 2 lines are repeated and logging is not available.
>
> How can I determine data/table/shared memory corruption?
>
> Thank you in advance for your responses.
>
> D. Ferrell

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