Snapshot 21/02/99 on Alpha

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                        POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE
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Your name        : Adriaan Joubert
Your email address    : a.joubert@albourne.com


System Configuration
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  Architecture (example: Intel Pentium)      : DEC alpha

  Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF)     : DEC Unix 4.0D

  PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-6.4)  : Snapshot 21 Feb 99

  Compiler used (example:  gcc 2.8.0)        : cc V5.6-071


Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
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Managed to compile postgres after substituting bison for yacc and fixing
a minor error in ./src/backend/nodes/print.c (one of the variables had
to be a pointer). initdb succeeded (which it never did with any of the
6.4.* versions), but practically all the regression tests failed
(exactly 8 succeeded).


In the output of the daemon there are multiple error messages:

ERROR:  type id lookup of 0 failed

In the output I get e.g.

  QUERY: SELECT 't'::bool or 'f'::bool AS true;
! ERROR:  Invalid use of NULL expression (internal error)
  QUERY: SELECT 't'::bool and 'f'::bool AS false;
! ERROR:  Invalid use of NULL expression (internal error)
  QUERY: SELECT not 'f'::bool AS true;
! ERROR:  Invalid use of NULL expression (internal error)
  QUERY: SELECT 't'::bool = 'f'::bool AS false;
! ERROR:  Invalid use of NULL expression (internal error)
  QUERY: SELECT 't'::bool <> 'f'::bool AS true;
! ERROR:  Invalid use of NULL expression (internal error)


so this seems to be related to the error message above.



Please describe a way to repeat the problem.   Please try to provide a
concise reproducible example, if at all possible:
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Follow the installation instructions and run the regression tests.



If you know how this problem might be fixed, list the solution below:
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