Saturday, May 17, 2008

Re: [HACKERS] What in the world is happening on spoonbill?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> writes:
>> psql is coredumping:
>
> Huh. I wonder why it's only happening on that one machine.
> Is there anything particularly unusual about datatype sizes
> or alignment rules on that platform?

hmm well it is a 64bit Sparc box running OpenBSD which is a tad
"unusual" in itself.
But if i had to guess this more likely caused by the special malloc
flags used on spoonbill (FGJPZ) - per your recommendations in:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-06/msg00828.php

docs at:

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=malloc.conf&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+4.2&arch=sparc64&format=html


Stefan

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