Re: Crash bug in 8.2.3 on Solaris 10/Sparc

From: Zoltan Boszormenyi <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Hans-Juergen Schoenig <hs(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Ewald Geschwinde <eg(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Subject: Re: Crash bug in 8.2.3 on Solaris 10/Sparc
Date: 2007-03-23 16:43:13
Message-ID: 460403A1.2080601@cybertec.at
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Tom Lane írta:
> Zoltan Boszormenyi <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at> writes:
>
>> we have found that psql in PostgreSQL 8.2.3
>> has problems connecting to the server
>> running on Solaris 10/Sun SPARC.
>> ...
>> It seems that somehow the system provided
>> GCC 3.4.3 miscompiles timestamptz_send()
>> and it segfaults.
>>
>
> I find it fairly hard to believe that timestamptz_send would be invoked
> at all while using psql, much less during initial connection. psql
> doesn't do any binary-output requests.
>
> regards, tom lane
>

Then please explain this miracle.
Anyway, your comment makes my suspicion about
the correctness of GCC-3.4.3 on Solaris 10/sparc
more founded now. :-)

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