Re: [PORTS] Re: [HACKERS] RedHat6.0 & Alpha

Any ideas on this one?

> Uncle George <gatgul@voicenet.com> writes:
> > In the regression test rules.sql there is this SQL command
> >         update rtest_v1 set a = rtest_t3.a + 20 where b = rtest_t3.b;
> > Which causes my alpha port to go core.
>
> Yeah.  This was reported by Pedro Lobo on 11 June, and we've been
> patiently waiting for Jan to decide what to do about it :-(
>
> You could stop the coredump by putting a test into ResolveNew:
>
>                     {
>                         *nodePtr = copyObject(n);
> +                       if (IsA(*nodePtr, Var))
>                             ((Var *) *nodePtr)->varlevelsup = this_varlevelsup;
>                     }
>
> but what's not so clear is what's supposed to happen when the
> replacement item *isn't* a Var.  I tried to convince myself that nothing
> needed to happen in that case, but wasn't successful.  (Presumably the
> replacement expression contains no instances of the variable being
> replaced, so recursing into it with ResolveNew shouldn't be needed
> --- but maybe its varlevelsup values need adjusted?)
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
>


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