Re: BUG #2594: Gin Indexes cause server to crash on Windows

Backport also works fine on Windows and Linux x86_32 (Fedora Core 5).

Charlie

Bernhard Weisshuhn wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 05:13:40PM -0600, Charlie Savage <cfis(at)savagexi(dot)com> wrote:
>
>>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>>
>>>> It appears that building a gin index on an empty table fails on any
>>>> platform. I get a null pointer dereference with the following stack
>>>> trace
>
>> Teodor Sigaev wrote:
>>
>>> Fixed in HEAD, thank you
>
> For the sake of completeness/reference: The backport for 8.1
> (http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/gin_tsearch2_81.gz)
> doesn't seem to have this bug, at least on a linux x86_64 machine I can
> create empty gin indexes with no problem.
>
> And the performance is sweeeet! Thanks Oleg & Teodor!
>
> kind regards,
> bkw
>
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