Re: [PATCHES] Re: Re: Tuple-valued datums on Alpha (was Re: 7.1 on DEC/Alpha)

Brent Verner <brent(at)rcfile(dot)org> writes:
> | Hm. I thought I'd fixed that. Are you up to date on
> | src/backend/utils/adt/oid.c ? Current CVS has rev 1.42.

> yup. got that version -- 1.42 2000/12/22 21:36:09 tgl

You're right, it was still broken :-(. I think I've got it now, though.

Oliver Elphick was kind enough to arrange access to an Alpha running
Debian Linux, and I find that current-as-of-this-moment sources pass
all regression tests in either serial or parallel test mode on that
system. Curiously, however, the system fails when you try to shut
it down:

Smart Shutdown request at Thu Dec 28 02:41:49 2000
DEBUG: shutting down
FATAL 2: Checkpoint lock is busy while data base is shutting down
Shutdown failed - abort

I have no idea why this should be. Evidently there's something wrong
with the TAS() macro --- yet it seems to work fine elsewhere. Ideas
anyone?

regards, tom lane