Alpha: Queries that select "oid"-attributes make the backend crash.

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Your name : Torsten Rottmann
Your email address : trott(at)mdtec(dot)de

System Configuration
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Architecture (example: Intel Pentium) : Alpha 21164

Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF) : Linux version 2.2.10

PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-6.5.1): PostgreSQL-6.5.1

Compiler used (example: gcc 2.8.0) : (gcc version egcs-2.91.60 19981201 (egcs-1.1.1 release))

Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
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Queries that select "oid"-attributes make the backend crash.

Please describe a way to repeat the problem. Please try to provide a
concise reproducible example, if at all possible:
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psql medikh
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medikh=> select oid from pg_class;
pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly.
This probably means the backend terminated abnormally
before or while processing the request.
We have lost the connection to the backend, so further processing is impossible.
Terminating.

If you know how this problem might be fixed, list the solution below:
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sorry, I don't. But this is shurely a 64-bit Alpha specific Problem,
the same Release works on Intel (clientside may still run on Alpha!).

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Torsten Rottmann

trott(at)mdtec(dot)de
MediTec GmbH, Germany
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