[postgis-users] Core dumps

[Peter Hopfgartner]

We do have code dumps enabled on our developement servers and, from time to time, some PostgreSQL/PostGIS process dumps core.
Could some useful feedback be provided to the developers from these dumps? Is the back trace enough, like the following:

Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x00000035eee79c00 in strncat () from /lib64/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00000035eee79c00 in strncat () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#1  0x00002b9176d04282 in lwmessage_truncate ()
   from /usr/lib64/pgsql/postgis-1.5.so
#2  0x00002b9176cc95a1 in pg_parser_errhint ()
   from /usr/lib64/pgsql/postgis-1.5.so
#3  0x00002b9176ccf2eb in LWGEOM_in () from /usr/lib64/pgsql/postgis-1.5.so
#4  0x000000000068b1fd in InputFunctionCall ()
#5  0x000000000068be6a in OidInputFunctionCall ()
#6  0x00000000004dfead in coerce_type ()
#7  0x00000000004e0733 in coerce_to_target_type ()
#8  0x00000000004e1d29 in transformAssignedExpr ()
#9  0x00000000004e1ea5 in updateTargetListEntry ()
#10 0x00000000004b8627 in transformStmt ()
#11 0x00000000004bab0e in parse_analyze ()
#12 0x00000000005da07c in pg_analyze_and_rewrite ()
#13 0x00000000005da7f8 in ?? ()
#14 0x00000000005db55b in PostgresMain ()
#15 0x00000000005b1d8d in ?? ()
#16 0x00000000005b2b3c in PostmasterMain ()
#17 0x00000000005603be in main ()


Regards,

Peter
 
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