Re: BUG #1208: Invalid page header

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Robert E Bruccoleri <bruc@stone.congenomics.com>, pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-08-16T16:13:05Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> If you are sure your storage and memory are good, I can think of only
> two other ideas.  One is a gcc bug.  You are running Itanium so it is
> possible.  The only other possibility I can think of is that that our
> ia64 assembler code is wrong.  It is:

But that code is gcc-only, and he's not using gcc.

It's certainly possible that the non-gcc spinlock path is broken on IA64
though.  I dunno that anyone has ever tested that combination.  It might
be interesting for him to run the "test" program in s_lock.c and see if
it complains.

			regards, tom lane