> >You must enable Assert to see the crash.
> 
> I saw the crash without assertion enabled? This is FreeBSD 2.2.6.
> 
> >The cause may be because you are doing a vacuum INSIDE a transaction.  I
> >think that also explains the psql -e thing, because that does both
> >commands in the same transaction.
> >
> >Perhaps we need to disable vacuum inside transactions.  Vadim?
> 
> FYI, it is reported that 6.3.2 does not have the crash.

OK, this is fixed now.  The problem is that my new cache-use code finds
tuples by looking in the cache, getting the t_ctid value, and using
heap_fetch to get the tuple, rather than the older sequential
scan/ScanKey method.

However, when you vacuum a table, as the rows are moved, the t_ctid
changes, but there was no call to invalidate the system cache for the
row, so when you vacuum pg_class, and later use the cache to look up
something, the cache points to an old tuple.

This is fixed now, along with a little cache code cleanup that removes
some unused code that was confusing things.

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