Re: [HACKERS] Core dump in regression tests.

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu (Thomas G. Lockhart)
Cc: emkxp01@mtcc.demon.co.uk, szybist@boxhill.com, hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-09-02T03:43:23Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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> > Can we try a simple -O rather than just -O2 and -O0.  Could this be 
> > some type of optimizer bug in gcc2/Solaris?
> > Everything is pointing to indexing.c, from both the initdb failure and
> > the create function failure.  But I can't see anything wrong in there,
> > and other platforms seem to be OK.
> 
> Uh, no, Linux/i686 is showing trouble too, but not in the initdb stage.
> The Sparc platforms will be more sensitive to byte alignment problems,
> especially within C structures, so this may be illustrating a
> cross-platform problem more clearly.
> 
> There is a repeatable indexing and (perhaps) caching problem I see in
> the regression tests. Annoyingly, the problems get slightly worse at the
> moment when compiling with -O0.
> 

OK, here is my regression output.  Do you see anything strange in there?



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