Re: [HACKERS] Segfault related to pg_authid when running initdb from git master

2010-12-15 Thread Peter Geoghegan
On 15 December 2010 01:35, Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote: I am suspicious of the fact that you are invoking initdb as ./initdb. Is it possible you're invoking this from the build tree, and there's an installed copy out there that doesn't match, but is getting used? Like maybe in

Re: [HACKERS] Segfault related to pg_authid when running initdb from git master

2010-12-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 6:07 AM, Peter Geoghegan peter.geoghega...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 December 2010 01:35, Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote: I am suspicious of the fact that you are invoking initdb as ./initdb. Is it possible you're invoking this from the build tree, and there's an

Re: [HACKERS] Segfault related to pg_authid when running initdb from git master

2010-12-15 Thread Peter Geoghegan
On 15 December 2010 16:26, Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 6:07 AM, Peter Geoghegan peter.geoghega...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 December 2010 01:35, Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote: I am suspicious of the fact that you are invoking initdb as ./initdb. Is

Re: [HACKERS] Segfault related to pg_authid when running initdb from git master

2010-12-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Peter Geoghegan peter.geoghega...@gmail.com wrote: Observe that the initdb and postgres timestamps are the same. Hrm. I cannot find the coredump. Perhaps it's a permissions issue. What do you think? It would presumably get dumped into the data directory.  

Re: [HACKERS] Segfault related to pg_authid when running initdb from git master

2010-12-15 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes: What distro are you using? This can't be broken across the board, given the lack of metoos. Can you use git bisect to figure out which commit broke it? Before that, have you tried the old standby of make distclean and a full rebuild/reinstall? The

Re: [HACKERS] Segfault related to pg_authid when running initdb from git master

2010-12-15 Thread Peter Geoghegan
Before that, have you tried the old standby of make distclean and a full rebuild/reinstall?  The lack of buildfarm confirmation makes me highly suspicious that there's any real problem. That's fixed both problems. I should have tried it much sooner. I guess that even though the binaries built

Re: [HACKERS] Segfault related to pg_authid when running initdb from git master

2010-12-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Peter Geoghegan peter.geoghega...@gmail.com wrote: Before that, have you tried the old standby of make distclean and a full rebuild/reinstall?  The lack of buildfarm confirmation makes me highly suspicious that there's any real problem. That's fixed both

Re: [HACKERS] Segfault related to pg_authid when running initdb from git master

2010-12-15 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Peter Geoghegan's message of mié dic 15 16:40:41 -0300 2010: Before that, have you tried the old standby of make distclean and a full rebuild/reinstall?  The lack of buildfarm confirmation makes me highly suspicious that there's any real problem. That's fixed both problems.

Re: [HACKERS] Segfault related to pg_authid when running initdb from git master

2010-12-15 Thread Peter Geoghegan
On 15 December 2010 19:43, Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote: Gah.  I assumed you had cleaned out your tree.  Oh, well. If you don't use --enable-depend, you can get this kind of issue. Even if you do, it's worth trying a full clean out (I use git clean -dfx) if you get something weird.

[HACKERS] Segfault related to pg_authid when running initdb from git master

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Geoghegan
Here's the output I see when $SUBJECT occurs, on a pg freshly built from git master with --enable-debug and --enable-cassert: [postg...@peter bin]$ uname -a Linux peter.laptop 2.6.35.9-64.fc14.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 3 12:19:41 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [postg...@peter bin]$ ./initdb

Re: [HACKERS] Segfault related to pg_authid when running initdb from git master

2010-12-14 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Peter Geoghegan peter.geoghega...@gmail.com wrote: Here's the output I see when $SUBJECT occurs, on a pg freshly built from git master with --enable-debug and --enable-cassert: I am suspicious of the fact that you are invoking initdb as ./initdb. Is it possible