Re: [HACKERS] Oh oh.... big trouble

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: karl(at)mcs(dot)net (Karl Denninger)
Cc: hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Oh oh.... big trouble
Date: 1998-03-09 21:58:21
Message-ID: 199803092159.QAA08510@candle.pha.pa.us
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>
>
> Hi again folks.
>
> Well, this problem just got a lot bigger.
>
> The previous update that does a sequential scan where it used to (under
> 6.2.1) do an index search on the outside condition just showed up in another
> process - and caused it to generate a 426MB core image, at which point it
> blew chunks.
>
> Folks, this is a big deal, and may be why some people are seeing problems
> with 6.3. If someone doesn't come up with a fix for this pretty quickly
> we're going to have to back out 6.3 here entirely.

Sounds like a serious problem, but honestly, this is the first problem
of this type I have heard about. I am not saying it is not a bug, but I
have no other hint as to the cause.

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