Re: [BUGS] Bus error in formatting.c NUM_numpart_to_char (9.4.12,9.6.3, sparc) - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: [BUGS] Bus error in formatting.c NUM_numpart_to_char (9.4.12,9.6.3, sparc)
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Msg-id 20170621154447.eazyyleirccpofju@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to [BUGS] Bus error in formatting.c NUM_numpart_to_char (9.4.12, 9.6.3, sparc)  ("Tom Turelinckx" <tom@turelinckx.be>)
Responses Re: [BUGS] Bus error in formatting.c NUM_numpart_to_char (9.4.12, 9.6.3, sparc)  ("Tom Turelinckx" <tom@turelinckx.be>)
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Tom Turelinckx wrote:

> It seems this issue was introduced in 9.4.9: 9.4.9, 9.4.10, 9.4.11 and
> 9.4.12 all crash at the same test at the same line in formatting.c,
> but 9.4.8 builds successfully and passes all tests. It also seems that
> both NUM_numpart_to_char and the failing test have not been touched
> for, eh, decades, so the root cause must be somewhere else.

You're probably misreading the git log, because this code was touched
just before 9.4.9.  See commit
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/20f870fd7cab8446c208a4a9cfa5ec2a441ef69c

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