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Oh oh.... big trouble

Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net> — 1998-03-09T20:36:32Z

Hi again folks.

Well, this problem just got a lot bigger.

The previous update that does a sequential scan where it used to (under
6.2.1) do an index search on the outside condition just showed up in another
process - and caused it to generate a 426MB core image, at which point it
blew chunks.

Folks, this is a big deal, and may be why some people are seeing problems
with 6.3.  If someone doesn't come up with a fix for this pretty quickly
we're going to have to back out 6.3 here entirely.

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Re: [HACKERS] Oh oh.... big trouble

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> — 1998-03-09T21:58:21Z

> 
> 
> Hi again folks.
> 
> Well, this problem just got a lot bigger.
> 
> The previous update that does a sequential scan where it used to (under
> 6.2.1) do an index search on the outside condition just showed up in another
> process - and caused it to generate a 426MB core image, at which point it
> blew chunks.
> 
> Folks, this is a big deal, and may be why some people are seeing problems
> with 6.3.  If someone doesn't come up with a fix for this pretty quickly
> we're going to have to back out 6.3 here entirely.

Sounds like a serious problem, but honestly, this is the first problem
of this type I have heard about.  I am not saying it is not a bug, but I
have no other hint as to the cause.

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