Tom Lane wrote: > Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I've been seeing this failure intermittently on Narwhal HEAD, and once >> on 8.1. Other branches have been OK, as have other animals running on >> the same physical box. Narwhal-HEAD is run more often than any other >> builds however. > >> Anyone have any idea what might be wrong? It seems unlikely to be a >> hardware issue given that it's the exact same test failures each time. > > Yeah, I'd been wondering about that too, but have no clue what's up. > It seems particularly odd that all the failures are in installcheck > not check. > > If you want to poke at it, I'd suggest changing the ERROR to PANIC > (it's in bufmgr.c) to cause a core dump, run installchecks till you > get a panic, and then look around in the dump to see what you can find. > It'd be particularly interesting to see what the buffer actually > contains. Also you could look at the corresponding page of the disk > file (which in theory should be the same as the buffer contents, > since this error check is only made just after a read() ...)
Hmm, I'll give it a go when I'm back in the office, but bear in mind this is a Mingw build on which debugging is nigh-on impossible. Regards, Dave. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match