Re: cvs head initdb hangs on unixware

On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:

> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:19:15 +0200
> From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
> To: ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr
> Cc: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>,
> pgsql-hackers list <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] cvs head initdb hangs on unixware
>
> ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr wrote:
>> On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>>> Could you zip up the FSM file of that relation (a file called e.g
>>> "789_fsm"), and send it over? Or the whole data directory, it shouldn't be
>>> that big.
>>>
>> you get both.
>
> Thanks. Hmm, the FSM pages are full of zeros, as I would expect for a
> just-created relation. fsm_search_avail should've returned quickly at the top
> of the function in that case. Can you put a extra printf or something at the
> top of the function, to print all the arguments? And the value of
> fsmpage->fp_nodes[0].
>
>> BTW, this is an optimizer problem, not anything wrong with the code, but
>> I'd hate to have a -g compiled postmaster in prod :)
>
> Yes, so it seems, although I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be a
> bug in the new FSM code either..
As you can see in attached initdb.log, it seems fsm_search_avail is called
repeatedly and args are sort of looping...

>
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