Re: [HACKERS] Re: Tuple-valued datums on Alpha (was Re: 7.1 on DEC/Alpha)

On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> After further study, I realized that fetchatt() and a number of other
> places were not prepared to cope with 8-byte pass-by-value datatypes.
> Most of them weren't checking for cases they couldn't handle, either.
>
> Here is a revised patch for you to try (this includes yesterday's patch
> plus more changes, so you'll need to reverse out the prior patch before
> applying this one). NOTE you will need to do a full reconfigure and
> rebuild to make this fly --- I'd suggest "make distclean" to start.

Good news is that it solves the 'misc' regression test failure. It
now passes with flying colors! The bad news is that the 'oid' regression
test is still broken (with the exact same problem as before). I think
Brent hit the same problem... I guess, verify that your oid fix actually
hit the CVS tree, and if it did, rethink the solution. :(
For testing I used the snapshot from ftp.postgresql.org:/pub/dev/
dated yesterday on my Alpha XLT366 running Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r0, kernel
2.2.17. Though I found the 'configure' file actually a copy of 'config.in'
and had to run the latter file through autoconf to get the correct version
of the former file. Weird.
Also, I tested a patches source tree on an Linux/x86 box, and it
passed all regression tests w/o problems. I can test the patched source
tree on a Linux/Sparc machine if you want (bit more effort required to do
so).
Overall, it looks like we are making progress! Thanks to both you
and Brent for looking deeper into these problems. TTYL.

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