Re: table schema causes crash

On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> <tom(at)minnesota(dot)com> writes:
> > authtest=# \d imap_passwd
> > Table "imap_passwd"
> > Column | Type | Modifiers
> > ----------+------------------------+-----------
> > username | character varying(128) | Primary key: imap_passwd_pkey
>
> > *** NOTE: it only shows the first column and none of the other columns ***
>
> What I find even more suspicious is that the "Primary key" footer shows
> up in the table data area. Looking at print_aligned_text, this seems to
> suggest that cells[2] must be NULL --- you would get this kind of
> mistake if the number of non-null cells[] entries is not a multiple of
> the number of non-null headers[] entries. But I surely do not see how
> describeTableDetails would be setting that cell to null --- it does
>
> cells[i * cols + 2] = xmalloc(128 + 128);
>
> and xmalloc() will exit() rather than return null.

This is sounding more and more like a machine with bad memory or a bad
hard drive.