<div class="socmaildefaultfont" dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt" ><div class="socmaildefaultfont" dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt" ><div dir="ltr" >Hello,</div>
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<div dir="ltr" >I have the Postgresql 10.2 database running on AIX Operating System and the database is created and stored on a distributed file-system.</div>
<div dir="ltr" >There was a test operation which shuts down the file-system.</div>
<div dir="ltr" >Soon after that, a coredump (abort) of Postgresql process was seen with the following stack :</div>
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<div dir="ltr" ><pre style="white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;" >IOT/Abort trap in raise at 0x90000000290e2ac
0x90000000290e2ac (raise+0x6c) e8410028 ld r2,0x28(r1)
(dbx) t
raise(??) at 0x90000000290e2ac
abort() at 0x90000000292cc38
errfinish() at 0x10000b848
XLogWrite() at 0x1000d7170
XLogBackgroundFlush() at 0x1000e4aa4
WalWriterMain() at 0x100500fc8
AuxiliaryProcessMain() at 0x1004ce0ec
StartChildProcess() at 0x1000b7000
reaper() at 0x1000bbc6c
__fd_select(??, ??, ??, ??, ??) at 0x900000002a3400c
postmaster.do_start_bgworker.ServerLoop() at 0x1000b9220
PostmasterMain() at 0x1000bdb6c
main() at 0x1000006bc
(dbx)
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<div dir="ltr" >From what i understand from the stack/code it indicates that a possible failure to write to the file-system caused Postgresql process to abort itself.</div>
<div dir="ltr" >Could you please let me know if this kind of abort of Postgresql is expected when the file-system goes down ?</div>
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<div dir="ltr" >Or if i need to provide more information, let me know.</div>
<div dir="ltr" >Thanks for the help in advance!</div>
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<div dir="ltr" >Regards,<br>Sangeeth Keeriyadath</div></div></div></div></div></div><BR>