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varchar() troubles. (S/Linux)

Keith Parks <emkxp01@mtcc.demon.co.uk> — 1998-01-22T20:08:20Z

Hi all,

Since the "fix" for varchars in "SELECT INTO" I'm getting a core dump on
initdb when initializing the database.

I've tracked this down to the  "REVOKE ALL ON pg_user FROM public" step.

Looking at the (not compiled with -g) core I see.
(gdb seems to be broken on S/Linux as I can't get a backtrace)

GDB 4.16 (sparc-unknown-linux), Copyright 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc...
Core was generated by `postgres -F -Q -D/usr/local/pgsql/data template1'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.1.8.3...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.5.0.6...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libreadline.so.2.0...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.5.3.12...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.1...done.
#0  0xc7f38 in OrderedElemGetBase ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0xc7f38 in OrderedElemGetBase ()
(gdb)                                                  

OrderedElemGetBase() seems to have something to so with extracting stuff :-)
from structures so I wonder if somehow the new...

#define USE_ATTTYPMOD(typeid)   ((typeid) == BPCHAROID || (typeid) == 
VARCHAROID)

in include/catalog/pg_type.h is somehow breaking some alignment rules
on SPARC architecture?

I'm currently trying to build on SPARC-Solaris2.6 but it's a major struggle
due to the changes in "dynloader" and "tas". (configure no longer works)

Keith.