Re: [BUGS] My investigations of the postmaster Bus error

2005-12-22 Thread Alvaro Herrera
[Sorry for copying -patches in my last email, I actually meant to send it to pgsql-bugs] Alvaro Herrera wrote: > I've been playing with the MIPS machine a little and still haven't found > any _obvious_ cause for the problem. However I suspect that it may be > related to unaligned memory access,

Re: [BUGS] My investigations of the postmaster Bus error

2005-10-11 Thread Jim C. Nasby
gerbil started failing with bus errors some time ago. We were finally able to 'fix it' by clearing out the CVS checkout, but the first failure could have been legitimate. See http://pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=gerbil&dt=2005-08-26%2009:18:41 Hope this helps... On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 0

[BUGS] My investigations of the postmaster Bus error

2005-10-11 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi PostgreSQL developers! There have already been some reports about the mysterious Bus error that postmaster dies with on some architectures. Since that bites pretty hard, I did some investigations and tests on various architectures with various configurations. As background, Debian currently bu