
Just looking around, and in one of my databases, there is a core file from
tonight, as well, that a quick gdb shows:

(gdb) where
#0  0x8060f92 in nocachegetattr ()
#1  0x809018f in ExecEvalVar ()
#2  0x8090c48 in ExecEvalExpr ()
#3  0x80907e6 in ExecEvalFuncArgs ()
#4  0x8090894 in ExecMakeFunctionResult ()
#5  0x8090a04 in ExecEvalOper ()
#6  0x8090cd4 in ExecEvalExpr ()
#7  0x8090ab2 in ExecEvalOr ()
#8  0x8090cf0 in ExecEvalExpr ()
#9  0x8090d62 in ExecQualClause ()
#10 0x8090d95 in ExecQual ()
#11 0x80910d6 in ExecScan ()
#12 0x8095a93 in ExecSeqScan ()
#13 0x808fb4e in ExecProcNode ()
#14 0x8107d56 in createfirstrun ()
#15 0x8107b88 in initialrun ()
#16 0x8107a6d in psort_begin ()
#17 0x8095d97 in ExecSort ()
#18 0x808fb7a in ExecProcNode ()
#19 0x808ec7d in ExecutePlan ()
#20 0x808e613 in ExecutorRun ()
#21 0x80dc5fb in ProcessQueryDesc ()
#22 0x80dc65c in ProcessQuery ()
#23 0x80db182 in pg_exec_query_dest ()
#24 0x80db05f in pg_exec_query ()
#25 0x80dc078 in PostgresMain ()
#26 0x80c65de in DoBackend ()
#27 0x80c6112 in BackendStartup ()
#28 0x80c5806 in ServerLoop ()
#29 0x80c535b in PostmasterMain ()
#30 0x809d5b2 in main ()
#31 0x806075d in _start ()

And whose directory contains alot of:

-rw-------  1 pgsql  pgsql  4775936 Mar 31 20:23 postgres.core
-rw-------  1 pgsql  pgsql        0 Mar 31 11:46 pg_attribute_relid_attnum_index.4744
-rw-------  1 pgsql  pgsql        0 Mar 31 11:46 pg_attribute_relid_attnum_index.4743
-rw-------  1 pgsql  pgsql        0 Mar 31 11:46 pg_attribute_relid_attnum_index.4742
-rw-------  1 pgsql  pgsql        0 Mar 31 11:46 pg_attribute_relid_attnum_index.4741
-rw-------  1 pgsql  pgsql        0 Mar 31 11:46 pg_attribute_relid_attnum_index.4740
-rw-------  1 pgsql  pgsql        0 Mar 31 11:46 pg_attribute_relid_attnum_index.4739
-rw-------  1 pgsql  pgsql        0 Mar 31 11:46 pg_attribute_relid_attnum_index.4738
-rw-------  1 pgsql  pgsql        0 Mar 31 11:46 pg_attribute_relid_attnum_index.4737

Again, if this is somethign that is most likely gone in v7.0, we can
ignore, but ... ?

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 


Fri, 31 Mar 2000 21:47:38 -0400 (AST)
The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
[6.5.3] further investigation ...