Tom; Not sure how to tell. I didn't explicitly specify anything like this during the ./configure step of install. Poking around in the souce directory, I pulled this out of config.cache ...
configure:1243: checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O9 -funroll-loops -ffast-math -malign-double -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=pentiumpro -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions ) works Note, I didn't use the postgresql that came with Slackware; I downloaded it from the postgres web site. Martin >> i am currently running 7.2.2 on slackware 8.1 (kernel 2.4.18) > > BTW, is it possible that your postgres was built with -ffast-math > in CFLAGS? That is known to cause symptoms like this. Unfortunately > -ffast-math is in the default CFLAGS on some Linux distros. > > regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly