Tom Lane wrote: > Stefan Kaltenbrunner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>hmm well -HEAD(and 8.0.4 too!) is broken on AIX 5.3ML3: >>http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-10/msg01053.php > > > [ shrug... ] The reports of this problem have not given enough > information to fix it, and since it's not a regression from 8.0, > it's not going to hold up the 8.1 release. When and if we receive > enough info to fix it, we'll gladly do so, but ... > > (My guess is that the problem is a compiler or libc bug anyway, > given that one report says that replacing a memcpy call with > an equivalent loop makes the failure go away.)
seneca is using gcc 4.0.1, I can reproduce the sig11 with gcc 3.3.2 and the "hang" with the IBM AIX-compiler so that would indicate a libc-bug ... If somebody is interested I can provide access to my testbox to help in debugging ... Stefan ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings