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Re: Bug#41277: postgresql 6.5.1-3 + sparc (sun4u) == nasty nasty crashes



[Background: PostgreSQL is causing extremely hard crashes on my Sun4u
(Ultra5) Debian SPARC system.  Anyone should be able to reproduce this
by installing the postgresql-test environment, and running:

  # cd /usr/lib/postgresql/test/regress
  # chown -R postgres .
  # su - postgres
  $ cd /usr/lib/postgresql/test/regress
  $ make runtest

BEWARE -- this hard crashes my system.  You may crash hard; you may
lose data.

Note: I am running a mostly up-to-date 2.2.9 kernel (stock image from
potato) with the newest postgresql package (6.5.1-3 I believe).
]

>That is very nasty  --  and unexpected; I would like to report whatever
>information is available to pgsql-ports@postgresql.org.  However, they
>will need to know exactly what was going on - logfile output, if available,
>progress through the test, test output file, if it survived.  It doesn't
>seem at all like the problem that I thought I was asking you to look at.
>We should investigate whether there is some entirely separate cause.

Yes.  On followup, I am getting intermittant hard crashes when running
regress.sh or doing any operation with postgresql.  Obviously, this is
more on the level of a sparc64 kernel problem, even, than a purely
postgres problem -- after all, no user process should be able to take
out the system this way.

My most recent crash has this output to 'make runtest':

path .. ok
polygon .. ok
circle .. ok
geometry .. failed
timespan ..

And in the postgres.log, with debugging at 4:

plan:

{ SEQSCAN :cost 43 :size 334 :width 16 :state <> :qptargetlist
({ TARGETENTRY :resdom { RESDOM :resno 1 :restype 705 :restypmod -1
:resname "one" :reskey 0 :reskeyop 0 :resgroupref 0 :resjunk false }
:expr { CONST :consttype 705 :constlen -1 :constisnull false
:constvalue  4 [  0  0  0  4 ]  :constbyval false }} { TARGETENTRY
:resdom { RESDOM :resno 2 :restype 600 :restypmod -1 :resname "f1"
:reskey 0 :reskeyop 0 :resgroupref 0 :resjunk false } :expr { VAR
:varno 1 :varattno 1 :vartype 600 :vartypmod -1  :varlevelsup 0
:varnoold 1 :varoattno 1}}) :qpqual ({ EXPR :typeOid 16  :opType func
:oper { FUNC :funcid 1532 :functype 16 :funcisindex false :funcsize 0
:func_fcache @ 0x0 :func_tlist ({ TARGETENTRY :resdom { RESDOM :resno
1 :restype 16 :restypmod -1 :resname "<noname>" :reskey 0 :reskeyop 0
:resgroupref 0 :resjunk false } :expr { VAR :varno -1 :varattno 1
:vartype 16 :vartypmod -1  :varlevelsup 0 :varnoold -1 :varoattno 1}})
:func_planlist <>} :args ({ VAR :varno 1 :varattno 1 :vartype 600
:vartypmod -1  :varlevelsup 0 :varnoold 1 :varoattno 1} { CONST
:consttype 600 :constlen 16 :constisnull false :constvalue  16 [  64
20  102  102  102  102  102  102  64  65  64  0  0  0  0  0 ]
:constbyval false })}) :lefttree <> :righttree <> :extprm () :locprm
() :initplan <> :nprm 0  :scanrelid 1 }

ProcessQuery
CommitTransactionCommand
StartTransactionCommand
query: SELECT '' AS one, p1.f1
   FROM POINT_TBL p1
   WHERE p1.f1 ?| '(5.1,34.5)'::point;
parser outputs:

{ QUERY :command 1  :utility <> :resultRelation 0 :into <> :isPortal
false :isBinary false :isTemp false :unionall false  :unique <>
:sortClause <> :rtable ({ RTE :relname point_tbl :refname p1 :relid
20864 :inh false :inFromCl true :skipAcl false}) :targetlist
({ TARGETENTRY :resdom { RESDOM :resno 1 :restype 705 :restypmod -1
:resname "one" :reskey 0 :reskeyop 0 :resgroupref 0 :resjunk false }
:expr { CONST :consttype 705 :constlen -1 :constisnull false
:constvalue  4 [  0  0  0  4 ]  :constbyval false }} { TARGETENTRY
:resdom { RESDOM :resno 2 :restype 600 :restypmod -1
:resname "f1" :reskey 0 :reskeyop 0 :resgroupref 0 :resjunk false }
:expr { VAR :varno 1 :varattno 1 :vartype 600 :vartypmod -1
:varlevelsup 0 :varnoold 1 :varoattno 1}}) :qual { EXPR :typeOid 16
:opType op :oper { OPER :opno 809
:opid 0 :opresulttype 16 } :args ({ VAR :varno 1 :varattno 1 :vartype

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Output just stops there, with a hard crash to the system.

--
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>


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