Re: [GENERAL] My postmaster just crashed !

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 02:22:36PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org> writes:
> > On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 05:26:26PM +0100, PFC wrote:
> >> It seems that contrib/intagg crashes my server :
>
> > I see the same thing with PostgreSQL 8.0.0 (REL8_0_STABLE) on Solaris 9
> > and FreeBSD 4.11.
>
> The intagg source code says
>
> NOTE: This module requires sizeof(void *) to be the same as sizeof(int)
>
> which in English means "this ain't gonna work on 64-bit machines". I've
> never bothered to look at it more closely than that ...

Hmmm...the PostgreSQL binaries on my Solaris/sparc box are 32-bit
and the FreeBSD box is a 32-bit i386, yet both are susceptible to
the crash. On both boxes, a 32-bit program shows both sizeof(void *)
and sizeof(int) to be 4, so the problem doesn't appear to be due
to that necessary condition not being satisfied.

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Michael Fuhr
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