Pedro Gimeno <pgsql-001@personal.formauri.es> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> BTW, having now looked closely at the diffs, the problems do not seem
>> be anywhere near the code we changed for 8.3. So I think the real
>> issue is that your compiler and glibc changed under you. Could you
>> perhaps retest 8.2 with the current toolchain and confirm that it
>> fails too?
> I'm not in the Debian team but may this help?
> http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=alpha&pkg=postgresql-8.2
Yeah, that seems to confirm that it is a tools problem rather than
anything we did to 8.3 ... and moreover that the breakage went in
sometime between Jun 23 and Aug 17.
regards, tom lane