Re: make check crashes on POWER8 machine

On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 10:29:13AM +0300, Victor Wagner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've encountered a problem with Postgres on PowerPC machine. Sometimes

Is it related to
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20032.1570808731%40sss.pgh.pa.us
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205183

(My initial report on that thread was unrelated user-error on my part)

> It seems that problem is in errors.sql when executed
>
> select infinite_recures(); statement
>
> so stack trace, produced by gdb is too long to post here.
>
> Problem is rare and doesn't occur on all runs of make check.
> When I run make check repeatedly it occurs once a several hundreds runs.
>
> It seems that problem is architecture-dependent, because I cannot
> reproduce it on x86_64 CPU with more than thousand runs of make check.

That's all consistent with the above problem.

> Running RedHat 7.6.

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Justin