Re: [HACKERS] index fix report

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

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu (Thomas G. Lockhart)
Cc: t-ishii@sra.co.jp, daybee@bellatlantic.net, daveh@insightdist.com, hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-09-06T05:43:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> > The test case David showed no error on my LinuxPPC box.
> > maybe platform dependent.
> 
> Same on my Linux/i686 box. No error with David's simple test.
> 
> > No progress so far. I'm looking for the smallest test case which 
> > definitely causes problems. But the behavior of the problems seem 
> > "random" on LinuxBox. Really strange...
> 
> I haven't yet tried stepping through code. But random as it seems the
> behavior in the regression test is quite repeatable. I wonder how few
> tests we could include and still see a problem there? Maybe I'll look at
> that a bit to see if I can help with a repeatable case.
> 
> Good hunting...

I just e-mailed David Hartwig who is in Maryland.  I am going to dial
into his machine in the next day or two and see the problem for myself.
We will work together to see what information we can gather.

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