Re: [HACKERS] Core dump in regression tests.

> > Can we try a simple -O rather than just -O2 and -O0.  Could this be
> > some type of optimizer bug in gcc2/Solaris?
> > Everything is pointing to indexing.c, from both the initdb failure and
> > the create function failure.  But I can't see anything wrong in there,
> > and other platforms seem to be OK.
>
> Uh, no, Linux/i686 is showing trouble too, but not in the initdb stage.
> The Sparc platforms will be more sensitive to byte alignment problems,
> especially within C structures, so this may be illustrating a
> cross-platform problem more clearly.
>
> There is a repeatable indexing and (perhaps) caching problem I see in
> the regression tests. Annoyingly, the problems get slightly worse at the
> moment when compiling with -O0.
>
> There is a fundamental problem lurking somewhere, and there may not be
> much point in going beta unless you think that more testers will help to
> track down the problem.

OK, let me send you my regression output, and perhaps you can see the
problem in there so I can debug it.

We have a configure problem too, that Tatsuo pointed out.  I removed my
config.cache, and tried to run configure, and got this.  I added 'set
-x' to help.


+ pwd
+ test -z
/usr/ucb:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/contrib/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/postgres/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:.:/usr/local/sbin:.:/usr/local/src/pgsql/pgsql/src
+ test -f /usr/ucb /sbin /usr/sbin /bin /usr/bin /usr/contrib/bin /usr/X11/bin /usr/local/postgres/bin /usr/local/bin
/usr/local/sbin. /usr/local/sbin . /usr/local/src/pgsql/pgsql/src/install-sh 
test: syntax error: Undefined error: 0
+ IFS=

+ INSTALL=
+ test -n
+ echo no
no
+ test -n
+ test -n
+ INSTALL=NONE
+ test NONE = NONE
+ echo - No Install Script found - aborting.
- No Install Script found - aborting.
+ exit 0


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