Re: [HACKERS] Infinity bsearch crash on Windows

2011-05-12 Thread Greg Smith
Tom Lane wrote: SELECT 'INFINITY'::TIMESTAMP; Hmm ... I bet this is related to the recent reports about ALTER USER VALID UNTIL 'infinity' crashing on Windows. Can the people seeing this get through the regression tests? Perhaps more to the point, what is their setting of TimeZone? What

Re: [HACKERS] Infinity bsearch crash on Windows

2011-05-12 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Smith g...@2ndquadrant.com writes: I must have missed that thread, I think I'm missing one of these lists (pgsql-bugs maybe?). I've cc'd Mark Watson so maybe you can get better responses without me in the middle if needed; for this one, he reports: Show timezone gives US/Eastern

[HACKERS] Infinity bsearch crash on Windows

2011-05-10 Thread Greg Smith
A 9.1Beta1 test report from Richard Broersma (and confirmed on another system by Mark Watson) showed up pgsql-testers this week at http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-testers/2011-05/msg0.php with the following test crashing his Windows server every time: SELECT 'INFINITY'::TIMESTAMP;

Re: [HACKERS] Infinity bsearch crash on Windows

2011-05-10 Thread Peter Geoghegan
On 10 May 2011 23:02, Greg Smith g...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: Why crash there only on Windows?  Was the problem actually introduced above this part of the code?  These are all questions I have no answer for. I don't find it at all surprising that there's a memory corruption bug that only

Re: [HACKERS] Infinity bsearch crash on Windows

2011-05-10 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Smith g...@2ndquadrant.com writes: A 9.1Beta1 test report from Richard Broersma (and confirmed on another system by Mark Watson) showed up pgsql-testers this week at http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-testers/2011-05/msg0.php with the following test crashing his Windows server