Re: [HACKERS] Core dump in regression tests.u

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: 1998-09-02T15:42:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 
> > Not sure how to find the problem. Without being able to debug it here,
> > I am left staring at the code over and over again.
> 
> That sounds like *so* much fun ;-)
> 
> OK, I've been ignoring the problem until now, and of course may not be
> of any help even if I were trying to help. I'm also not quite up on the
> history and sequence of events which led to our current state, and I'm
> not sure we have a strong regression history yet to pin this down.
> 
> At the moment we have Bruce and the two sparc guys working on it, and
> Bruce can't reproduce the problems on his machine and Keith's machine is
> so dog-slow that he can't do much testing which involve full rebuilds.
> Boy, it hasn't been long since that model Sparc was the best thing
> going, eh?

I was on Thomas A. Szybist machine for two hours, and even though I was
telnet'ed across three Internet machines to get there, it made my PP200
look like it was sitting still.  Amazing speed.  It is a Sparc running
Solaris.

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