People,
This is a weird bug. In a freshly initialized database, or just after
deleting the pg_internal.init relcache file,
SELECT 16854::regclass;
crashes the backend. (Apparently any Oid not belonging to a regclass
does the trick.) The following assertion is failed:
TRAP: FailedAssertion(«!(((ntp)->t_data)->t_infomask & 0x0010)», Archivo:
«/home/alvherre/CVS/pgsql/source/00orig/src/backend/utils/cache/catcache.c»,Línea: 1729)
The problem is that build_dummy_tuple() is calling HeapTupleSetOid(),
which complains apparently because it believes the pg_class relation
does not have Oids. This is wrong, but it doesn't know. In fact, next
time through, when it has the relcache built, all is well. I can attest
that the cache has wrong info, because gdb shows
(gdb) print *cache->cc_tupdesc
$15 = {natts = 25, attrs = 0x839d5d4, constr = 0x839cb3c, tdtypeid = 2249,
tdtypmod = -1, tdhasoid = 0 '\0'}
(gdb) print cache->cc_relname
$16 = 0x8266f7a "pg_class"
I don't know what the fix for this should look like ...
This doesn't seem to happen on 7.4.
--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
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el tonto, porque tiene que decir algo" (Platon).
