Re: [BUGS] My investigations of the postmaster Bus error

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> I've been playing with the MIPS machine a little and still haven't found
> any _obvious_ cause for the problem. However I suspect that it may be
> related to unaligned memory access, which _I think_ results in a SIGBUS
> on MIPS. I haven't found any documentation on MIPS that would confirm
> this however. I'm not sure exactly how would this by worked around; it
> occurs to me that we'd have to change config_real to look like

I don't think so --- to believe that the GUC data structures aren't
adequately aligned, you'd have to explain why PG doesn't crash on other
architectures that require 8-byte alignment of doubles, eg HPPA.

regards, tom lane