Tom Lane wrote:
It looks like gypsy_moth has been failing like this:
creating directory
/export/home/tmp/pg-test/build-suncc/HEAD/pgsql.21325/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data
... ok
creating subdirectories ... ok
selecting default max_connections ... 100
selecting default shared_buffers/max_fsm_pages ... 32MB/204800
creating configuration files ... ok
creating template1 database in
/export/home/tmp/pg-test/build-suncc/HEAD/pgsql.21325/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data/base/1
... ok
initializing pg_authid ... ok
initializing dependencies ... ok
creating system views ... Bus Error - core dumped
child process exited with exit code 138
initdb: data directory
/export/home/tmp/pg-test/build-suncc/HEAD/pgsql.21325/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data
not removed at user's request
since I put in this patch:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2008-02/msg00270.php
This is unfortunate and surprising, since that patch was intended to
prevent compilers from making unsafe alignment assumptions, but it sure
looks like this compiler has instead added a new one. Could you poke
into it --- at least get a stack trace from the core dump?
Running initdb with debug:
--888888--
$./initdb -D /export/home/tmp/test -d -n
snip
DEBUG: name: unnamed; blockState: STARTED; state: INPROGR,
xid/subid/cid: 0/1/35, nestlvl: 1, children:
DEBUG: commit transaction
DEBUG: proc_exit(0)
DEBUG: shmem_exit(0)
DEBUG: exit(0)
ok
initializing pg_authid ... ok
initializing dependencies ... ok
creating system views ... Bus Error - core dumped
child process exited with exit code 138
initdb: data directory /export/home/tmp/test not removed at user's request
--888888--
Stack trace:
--888888--
$ /opt/SUNWspro8/bin/dbx long_path/postgres core
program terminated by signal BUS (invalid address alignment)
Current function is toast_save_datum
1171 SET_VARSIZE(chunk_data, chunk_size + VARHDRSZ);
(dbx) where
=[1] toast_save_datum(rel = 0xcd8ff8, value = 14406480U, use_wal =
\001', use_fsm = '\001'), line 1171 in tuptoaster.c
[2] toast_insert_or_update(rel = 0xcd8ff8, newtup = 0xdba3e8, oldtup
= (nil), use_wal = '\001', use_fsm = '\001'), line 700 in tuptoaster.c
[3] heap_insert(relation = 0xcd8ff8, tup = 0xdba3e8, cid = 10U,
use_wal = '\001', use_fsm = '\001'), line 1815 in heapam.c
[4] simple_heap_insert(relation = 0xcd8ff8, tup = 0xdba3e8), line
1937 in heapam.c
[5] InsertRule(rulname = 0xdaf730 _RETURN, evtype = 1, eventrel_oid
= 10950U, evslot_index = -1, evinstead = '\001', event_qual = (nil),
action = 0xdaf760, replace = '\0'), line 134 in rewriteDefine.c
[6] DefineQueryRewrite(rulename = 0xdaf730 _RETURN, event_relid =
10950U, event_qual = (nil), event_type = CMD_SELECT, is_instead =
'\001', replace = '\0', action = 0xdaf760), line 461 in rewriteDefine.c
[7] DefineViewRules(viewOid = 10950U, viewParse = 0xdab070, replace =
'\0'), line 275 in view.c
[8] DefineView(stmt = 0xd3f920, queryString = 0xd9b888 /*\n *
PostgreSQL System Views\n *\n * Copyright (c) 1996-2008, PostgreSQL
Global Development Group\n *\n * $PostgreSQL:
pgsql/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql,v 1.47 2007/10/22 20:13:37
tgl Exp $\n */\n\nCREATE VIEW pg_roles AS \nSELECT \n
rolname,\nrolsuper,\nrolinherit,\n
rolcreaterole,\nrolcreatedb,\nrolcatupdate,\n
rolcanlogin,\nrolconnlimit,\n''::text as
rolpassword,\nrolvaliduntil,\nrolconfig,\noid\n
FROM pg_aut ...), line 447 in view.c
[9] ProcessUtility(parsetree = 0xd3f920, queryString = 0xd9b888 /*\n
* PostgreSQL System Views\n *\n * Copyright (c) 1996-2008, PostgreSQL
Global Development Group\n *\n * $PostgreSQL:
pgsql/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql,v 1.47 2007/10/22 20:13:37
tgl Exp $\n */\n\nCREATE VIEW pg_roles AS \nSELECT \n
rolname,\nrolsuper,\nrolinherit,\n
rolcreaterole,\nrolcreatedb,\nrolcatupdate,\n
rolcanlogin,\nrolconnlimit,\n''::text as
rolpassword,\nrolvaliduntil,\nrolconfig,\noid\n
FROM pg_aut ..., params = (nil), isTopLevel = '\0', dest =
0xbb1534, completionTag = 0xffbef64c ), line 894 in utility.c
[10] PortalRunUtility(portal = 0xd39e68, utilityStmt = 0xd3f920,
isTopLevel = '\0', dest = 0xbb1534, completionTag = 0xffbef64c ), line
1178 in pquery.c
[11] PortalRunMulti(portal = 0xd39e68, isTopLevel = '\0', dest =
0xbb1534, altdest = 0xbb1534, completionTag = 0xffbef64c ), line 1266
in pquery.c
[12] PortalRun(portal = 0xd39e68, count = 2147483647, isTopLevel =
'\0', dest = 0xbb1534, altdest = 0xbb1534, completionTag = 0xffbef64c
), line 814 in pquery.c
[13] exec_simple_query(query_string = 0xd2fe38 /*\n * PostgreSQL
System Views\n
