AW: User functions and AIX

From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>
To: "'darcy(at)druid(dot)net'" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: AW: User functions and AIX
Date: 2001-05-29 07:28:26
Message-ID: 11C1E6749A55D411A9670001FA6879633682F7@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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> IBM is trying to find the answer to this but I thought I would throw
> this out here to see if anyone can help me. I am compiling a user
> defined type on AIX and it fails when I try to use it. The type is
> chkpass and it is in the contrib directory. It fails with a core dump
> at line 88 in chkpass.c. The line reads as follows.
>
> result = (chkpass *) palloc(sizeof(chkpass));
>
> The top of the backtrace looks like this.
>
> #0 0x0 in ?? () from (unknown load module)
> #1 0xd1087a60 in chkpass_in (fcinfo=0x0) at chkpass.c:88
> #2 0x10045cf4 in or_clause (clause=0x0) at clauses.c:211
> #3 0x10075d68 in int82ge (fcinfo=0x1015cfc8) at int8.c:343
> #4 0x1005909c in _readArrayRef () at readfuncs.c:924
> #5 0x10059b68 in _readSeqScan () at readfuncs.c:600
>
> It looks like the dynamically loaded object (chkpass.so)
> can't determine
> the address of palloc() from the parent. I assume I need a
> flag for the
> compile either on the main build to export the addresses or
> on the build
> of chkpass to tell it where to look up the addresses. Anyone been
> through this that might be able to shed some light?

Tell me your link line, OS and compiler version.
And have you forgotten to include -bI:postgres.imp ?
In general it is imho a good idea to copy the appropriate
compile and link flags from the regression test, that compiles
shared libs in .../contrib.

Andreas

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