Re: uuids on freebsd

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:

> Andrew Gierth wrote:
>> Has anyone ever managed to get uuid generation working on FreeBSD?
>> There seems to be no way to build contrib/uuid-ossp successfully,
>> and no apparent agreement anywhere as to whether this is problem
>> with pg or with the misc/ossp-uuid port.

Peter> So what's the problem? Error messages etc.?

On my system (7.1-pre on amd64), it refuses to link (presumably due to
the misc/ossp-uuid port building the .a without -fPIC). The guy whose
report on IRC caused me to look into it had a very similar system, but
in his case the module did link, but segfaulted the backend if called.

I get a segfault too if I force misc/ossp-uuid to build with -fPIC:

test=# select uuid_generate_v1();
server closed the connection unexpectedly

(gdb) where
#0 0x000000087d404fb5 in uuid_export () from /usr/local/lib/postgresql/uuid-ossp.so
#1 0x000000087d40598a in uuid_make () from /usr/local/lib/postgresql/uuid-ossp.so
#2 0x000000087d4031d8 in uuid_nil () from /usr/local/lib/postgresql/uuid-ossp.so
#3 0x0000000000556cf9 in ExecMakeFunctionResult ()

I can try this on another box with a debug-enabled pg build later.

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Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)