Re: [HACKERS] alpha/64bit weirdness

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

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: brett@chicken.org (Brett McCormick)
Cc: pgsql-hackers@hub.org
Date: 1998-03-04T23:31:34Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> 
> 
> I've made a little headway -- it can't find the mkoidname function
> because the attributes that it looks up for the argument types have a
> atttypid of 0 (see the following example):
> 
> also, other information that should be in there is not, so it makes me
> suspect something wrong with insertion of attributes?  I don't know
> enough to be able to see if this is affecting all attributes or just
> some of them.
> 
> Does anyone have any pointers to where to check this problem out?
> 
> $4 = {attrelid = 1249, attname = {
>     data = "\000\000\000\000attrelid", '\000' <repeats 19 times>}, 
>   atttypid = 0, attdisbursion = 6.89648632e-314, attlen = 0, attnum = 0, 
>   attnelems = 65540, attcacheoff = 0, atttypmod = -1, attbyval = -1 ', 
>   attisset = -1 ', attalign = -1 ', attnotnull = -1 ', 
>   atthasdef = 1 '\001'}
> 
> 

I have an idea.   Edit initdb and add a '-d 3' option to each
'postgres', then run initdb.  You will see dumps of all the structures
as things are happening, I think.  Give it a try.

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