Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Keith Parks <emkxp01@mtcc.demon.co.uk> writes:
> > With the following query from the opr_sanity regression test I'm
> > getting a backend crash.
> > [ details snipped ]
> > This is on the latest CVS, although I believe it happened on earlier
> > snapshots.
> > Platform is SPARC/Linux Redhat 4.2 SPARCstation IPX.
>
> FWIW, I saw a backend crash in opr_sanity in an otherwise reasonably
> successful attempt to build/test Postgres on SPARC/SunOS 4.1.4. This
> was with REL6_4 CVS sources around the start of December. I didn't have ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
It's probably caused by new HeapTuple stuff, but I didn't
put it in 6_4 branch...
> time to investigate it closely, but it does seem there's a platform-
> dependent problem lurking in there somewhere. (Wonder if it could be
> specific to the SPARC hardware?)
>
> Can any of the backend experts make any guesses from Keith's backtrace?
Vadim