Re: [HACKERS] alpha/64bit weirdness

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

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: brett@work.chicken.org (Brett McCormick)
Cc: pgsql-hackers@hub.org
Date: 1998-03-05T04:09:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> 
> 
> Why would the atttypmod affect anything before it in the struct?  I
> have verified that everything is shifted over for bytes, but that
> would lead be to beleive that somewhere the length of the first
> attribute (Oid) is being miscalculated?  Where would the code write to
> this data structure without using a pointer to actual struct for
> obtaining the correct memory structure?  I checked for offsetof macro
> calls that might cause this effect, to no avail..
> 
> We're a lot closer, though.. right?

I think your dump tells up something.  Can you put a beak on the failure
line, then do a backtrace after the elog(), and start putting breaks in
the functions called on that structure, and see if we can find how that
relation name is getting messed up.

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