Re: 9.4 beta1 crash on Debian sid/i386

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christoph Berg <cb(at)df7cb(dot)de>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, bastian(dot)blank(at)credativ(dot)de
Subject: Re: 9.4 beta1 crash on Debian sid/i386
Date: 2014-05-19 17:31:42
Message-ID: 13285.1400520702@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Christoph Berg <cb(at)df7cb(dot)de> writes:
> FTR, I've just had a look at armhf (arm-linux-gnueabihf), the address
> layout looks exactly the same there, and 9.3 crashes easily, so it's
> really a problem of all Linux 32bit archs. I'm puzzled the regression
> tests passed there [1], but anyway, we'll probably get rid of -pie.

Well, the failure is probabilistic --- it might sometimes pass because
the random address layout is not so tight.

regards, tom lane

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