Re: [HACKERS] min() and max() causing aborts

> I pulled the latest version of the source tree yesterday and complied
> PosgtreSQL 6.5. The get the following error on any select statement
> containing min() and max():
>
> mp=> select max(addressid) from addresses;
> pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly.
> This probably means the backend terminated abnormally before or
> while processing the request.
> We have lost the connection to the backend, so further processing is
> impossible. Terminating.
>
>
> I am running Red Hat 5.1.
>
> FYI, I also noticed failures in the regressions tests for int2 and int4 and
> some others (int8 was okay). I did not dig very deep into this but the only
> error I could see with int2 and int4 occurred when the value that was being
> inserted into the table was too large for the field. For example, inserting
> 100000 into an int2 field.
>

I recommend a clean compile and initdb to see if that fixes it. Do you
see anything in the postmaster log file?

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