Re: buildfarm NetBSD/m68k tsearch regression failure

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Rémi Zara <remi_zara(at)mac(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: buildfarm NetBSD/m68k tsearch regression failure
Date: 2004-12-29 17:05:16
Message-ID: 10954.1104339916@sss.pgh.pa.us
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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=E9mi_Zara?= <remi_zara(at)mac(dot)com> writes:
> here is the tail of regression.diff (which indicates that the first=20
> query failed):

> SELECT '1'::mquery_txt;
> ! server closed the connection unexpectedly
> ! This probably means the server terminated abnormally
> ! before or while processing the request.
> ! connection to server was lost

Backtracing the core dump from that crash would do fine. It's probably
the same failure --- what this looks like to me now is dereferencing a
garbage pointer, which happens to pick up an irrelevant value in the one
symptom and touch unmapped memory in the other.

regards, tom lane

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