Re: [HACKERS] Core dump in regression tests.

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu (Thomas G(dot) Lockhart)
Cc: emkxp01(at)mtcc(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk, szybist(at)boxhill(dot)com, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Core dump in regression tests.
Date: 1998-09-02 03:43:23
Message-ID: 199809020343.XAA17256@candle.pha.pa.us
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> > Can we try a simple -O rather than just -O2 and -O0. Could this be
> > some type of optimizer bug in gcc2/Solaris?
> > Everything is pointing to indexing.c, from both the initdb failure and
> > the create function failure. But I can't see anything wrong in there,
> > and other platforms seem to be OK.
>
> Uh, no, Linux/i686 is showing trouble too, but not in the initdb stage.
> The Sparc platforms will be more sensitive to byte alignment problems,
> especially within C structures, so this may be illustrating a
> cross-platform problem more clearly.
>
> There is a repeatable indexing and (perhaps) caching problem I see in
> the regression tests. Annoyingly, the problems get slightly worse at the
> moment when compiling with -O0.
>

OK, here is my regression output. Do you see anything strange in there?

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