Re: [HACKERS] index fix report

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>

From: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>

To: David Hartwig <daveh@insightdist.com>

Cc: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>, hackers@postgreSQL.org

Date: 1998-09-04T01:22:30Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

> Forgot to mention.  I still have the problem also.    Tom, what are 
> you running on?   Is platform still a factor in this problem?

Platform is a problem in that Bruce's FreeBSD/i686 machine does not show
the symptoms, but it's a pretty widespread problem beyond that afaik.
I'm running on Linux/i686. Tatsuo sees problems on Linux/PPC. Some Sparc
machines running Solaris and Linux apparently still show problems.

I'm guessing that it is a byte alignment difference in malloc behavior
between the systems which exposes misaligned structures on some
platforms. How's that for pure speculation, eh?

                        - Tom