Re: 7.0RC1: possible query and backend problem

At 5:16 PM -0700 4/19/2000, Michael Blakeley wrote:
>I've just upgraded to 7.0RC1 on a Solaris 2.6+patches system (U5
>with 256MB). I'm having some trouble with a brand-new query, so I
>don't know if this is a new bug or an old one. It has two parts:
>query execution and backend robustness.
>
>First, I'm getting a crash with this query (via Apache mod_perl and
>DBI, or via psql):
>
>Table U: id varchar(128) primary key, stop datetime, start datetime
>Table S1: id varchar(128) primary key, url varchar(512);
>Table S2: id varchar(128) primary key, url varchar(512);
>
> SELECT id,date_part('epoch',sum(stop-start)),count(*),S1.url,S2.url
> FROM U WHERE 'now'::datetime-start<'1 month'::interval
> AND (id=S1.id OR id=S2.id) GROUP BY id,S1.url,S2.url;

For the benefit of anyone trying to work around crashes like this,
the query works fine for me as a UNION, instead.

SELECT id,date_part('epoch',sum(stop-start)),count(*),S1.url
FROM U WHERE 'now'::datetime-start<'1 month'::interval
AND id=S1.id GROUP BY id,S1.url
UNION
SELECT id,date_part('epoch',sum(stop-start)),count(*),S2.url
FROM U WHERE 'now'::datetime-start<'1 month'::interval
AND id=S2.id GROUP BY id,S2.url;

Here's a backtrace, too:

# gdb ./bin/postgres ./data/base/sonicbox/core
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This GDB was configured as "sparc-sun-solaris2.6"...
Core was generated by `/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -i -N 512 -B
1024 -o -F'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation Fault.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libdl.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libm.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libmp.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-5_10/lib/libc_psr.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/nss_files.so.1...done.
#0 0x110f6c in make_one_rel_by_joins ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x110f6c in make_one_rel_by_joins ()
#1 0x110d40 in make_one_rel ()
#2 0x11be74 in subplanner ()
#3 0x11bd98 in query_planner ()
#4 0x11ca40 in union_planner ()
#5 0x11c3fc in subquery_planner ()
#6 0x11c13c in planner ()
#7 0x16314c in pg_plan_query ()
#8 0x163428 in pg_exec_query_dest ()
#9 0x163270 in pg_exec_query ()
#10 0x164f60 in PostgresMain ()
#11 0x131738 in DoBackend ()
#12 0x130f08 in BackendStartup ()
#13 0x12f41c in ServerLoop ()
#14 0x12e978 in PostmasterMain ()
#15 0xd89f8 in main ()

-- Mike