Re: make check crashes on POWER8 machine

Victor Wagner <vitus@wagner.pp.ru> writes:
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> пишет:
>> Read the whole thread.  We fixed the issue with recursion in the
>> postmaster (9abb2bfc0); but the intermittent failure in
>> infinite_recurse is exactly the same as what we've been seeing for a
>> long time in the buildfarm, and there is zero doubt that it's that
>> kernel bug.

> I've tried to cherry-pick commit 9abb2bfc8 into REL_12_STABLE and rerun
> make check in loop. Oops, on 543 run it segfaults with same symptoms
> as before.

Unsurprising, because it's a kernel bug.  Maybe you could try
cherry-picking the patch proposed at kernel.org (see other thread).

            regards, tom lane