On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 22:45, Tom Lane wrote:
> "PostgreSQL Bugs List" <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org> writes:
> > Linux is severly affected and the machine needs a RESET to be able to boot.
> > (shutdown nor init 6 work!!)
>
> Sure you're not looking at hardware problems? PG should certainly not
> be able to crash a properly functioning kernel (since PG isn't a
> privileged process) and I haven't heard many complaints against later
> 2.4 series kernels either. My money is on flaky hardware...
>
Running the bulk insert process without the trigger does work well. We
did an update to the tsvector afterwards and it also worked without a
hitch. Therefore I suspect of the trigger.
TIA,