The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 2728
Logged by: Yee
Email address: christ1783 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
PostgreSQL version: 7.4.1
Operating system: Solaris 9
Description: Core dump while pgdump DB
Details:

I tried to export a large DB from PostgreSQL and a core_dump file was found
after the process.

The following was what I found from the core_dump:

GNU gdb 6.0
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GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you
are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
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This GDB was configured as "sparc-sun-solaris2.9"...
Core was generated by `/gen/tools/pgsql/bin/postmaster -i -S -D
/gen/tools/pgsql/data'.
Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/librt.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/librt.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libresolv.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libresolv.so.2
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgen.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libgen.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libdl.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libm.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libm.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libc.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libaio.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libaio.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libmd5.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libmd5.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libmp.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libmp.so.2
Reading symbols from
/usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440/lib/libc_psr.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440/lib/libc_psr.so.1
#0 0x7f9204f8 in __tbl_10_big_digits () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1

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"Yee" <christ1783 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> writes:
We need to see the backtrace (gdb "bt" command) from this. Also,
did you look in the postmaster log? Signal 6 probably means that
an Assert() test failed, in which case something would have been
printed in the log before aborting.

regards, tom lane

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