Re: [BUGS] My postmaster just crashed !

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I think it is an internal thing with gcc that the size of a pointer and
sizeof(int) are always the same, regardless of machine word size...
with a 64-bit binary, sizeof(int) and sizeof(void *) should both be 8,
which still causes them to be equal.

On Jan 27, 2005, at 2:38 PM, Michael Fuhr wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 02:22:36PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> writes:
>>> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 05:26:26PM +0100, PFC wrote:
>>>> It seems that contrib/intagg crashes my server :
>>
>>> I see the same thing with PostgreSQL 8.0.0 (REL8_0_STABLE) on
>>> Solaris 9
>>> and FreeBSD 4.11.
>>
>> The intagg source code says
>>
>>     NOTE: This module requires sizeof(void *) to be the same as
>> sizeof(int)
>>
>> which in English means "this ain't gonna work on 64-bit machines".
>> I've
>> never bothered to look at it more closely than that ...
>
> Hmmm...the PostgreSQL binaries on my Solaris/sparc box are 32-bit
> and the FreeBSD box is a 32-bit i386, yet both are susceptible to
> the crash.  On both boxes, a 32-bit program shows both sizeof(void *)
> and sizeof(int) to be 4, so the problem doesn't appear to be due
> to that necessary condition not being satisfied.
>
> --
> Michael Fuhr
> http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
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