Re: [HACKERS] Broken PostgreSQL (latest CVS) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Broken PostgreSQL (latest CVS)
Date
Msg-id 199808201533.LAA26697@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Broken PostgreSQL (latest CVS)  (jwieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck))
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>     Looks like the tuple desctiptor given to index_formtuple() is
>     corrupted  somewhere  before  the  call   to   memmove()   in
>     DataFill() line 208.
>
>     I  think  it  must  have  happened  inside  of  DataFill() or
>     something DataFill() called, because at the time of  failure,
>     the  on-stack  variable  tupleDescriptor of index_formtuple()
>     looks still good - so I assume index_formtuple()  handed  the
>     correct  value  to  DataFill()  at  line  78  and it has been
>     corrupted after.
>
>     BTW: I love gdb.

This is happening during initdb?  Hope the new code fixes that.

BTW, it does pass the regression tests on my machine, so I figured
it was safe.

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