Re: 8.1 Release Candidate 1 Coming ...

Tom Lane wrote:
> Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> writes:
>
>>hmm well -HEAD(and 8.0.4 too!) is broken on AIX 5.3ML3:
>>http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-10/msg01053.php
>
>
> [ shrug... ] The reports of this problem have not given enough
> information to fix it, and since it's not a regression from 8.0,
> it's not going to hold up the 8.1 release. When and if we receive
> enough info to fix it, we'll gladly do so, but ...
>
> (My guess is that the problem is a compiler or libc bug anyway,
> given that one report says that replacing a memcpy call with
> an equivalent loop makes the failure go away.)

seneca is using gcc 4.0.1, I can reproduce the sig11 with gcc 3.3.2 and
the "hang" with the IBM AIX-compiler so that would indicate a libc-bug ...

If somebody is interested I can provide access to my testbox to help in
debugging ...

Stefan