Re: Curious buildfarm failures (fwd)

On 2013-01-15 20:32:00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On 2013-01-15 19:56:52 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> At this point I'm more interested in his report in
> >> <alpine(dot)LRH(dot)2(dot)03(dot)1301152012220(dot)773(at)ast(dot)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk> about
> >> the Assert at spgdoinsert.c:1222 failing. That's pretty new code, so
> >> more likely to have a genuine bug, and I wonder if it's related to
> >> the spgist issue in <50EBF992(dot)2000704(at)qunar(dot)com> ...
>
> > Yes, it looks more like it could be something real. There are
> > suspicously many other failing tests though (misc, with) that don't seem
> > to be related to the spgist crash.
>
> Looking again, the pg_regress output appears to indicate two separate
> crashes (one during rangetypes, the other during create_index). The
> reported Assert trap was in the rangetypes test, but the other one
> could very easily have been from spgist code as well. I'd tend to
> write off all the other reported diffs as followon damage from the
> crashes, at least without clearer evidence that they weren't. There are
> very many instances in our regression tests where failure to complete
> one test results in bogus diffs in later ones, because DB objects don't
> exist or don't have the expected contents.

I just checked and its just followup damage.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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