Re: Odd 9.4, 9.3 buildfarm failure on s390x

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, mark(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com
Subject: Re: Odd 9.4, 9.3 buildfarm failure on s390x
Date: 2018-09-28 19:26:14
Message-ID: 15043.1538162774@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> It seems Mark started a new buildfarm animal on s390x. It shows a pretty
> odd failure on 9.3 and 9.4, but *not* on newer animals:

No, lumpsucker is showing the same failure on 9.5 as well. I suspect
that the reason 9.6 and up are OK is that 9.6 is where we introduced
the abbreviated-sort-key machinery. IOW, the problem exists in the
old-style UUID sort comparator but not the new one. Which is pretty
darn odd, because the old-style comparator is just memcmp(). How
could that be broken without causing lots more issues?

regards, tom lane

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