Re: pgsql: Add support for multivariate MCV lists

From: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-committers <pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgsql: Add support for multivariate MCV lists
Date: 2019-03-29 19:25:10
Message-ID: 20190329192510.GB1136@development
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On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 12:06:26PM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 11:20 AM Tomas Vondra
><tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> I've pushed a fix for this. The short version is that the serialized
>> representation was not respecting memory alignment requirements, which was
>> causing issues in machines sensitive to this (ia64, sparc, hppa). It's a
>> blind attempt, as I currently don't have access to any such machine.
>
>Looks like gharial still has problems:
>
>https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=gharial&dt=2019-03-29%2018%3A30%3A47
>

Yeah, I saw that :-(

Unfortunately fixing this without access to any ia64/sparc/hppa machine
will be hard. The only thing I can do is wait for gaur/snapper to report
the failure with a backtrace.

cheers

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Tomas Vondra http://www.2ndQuadrant.com
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services

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