Re: [PATCH] Incremental sort (was: PoC: Partial sort) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [PATCH] Incremental sort (was: PoC: Partial sort)
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Msg-id 2595.1586220133@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [PATCH] Incremental sort (was: PoC: Partial sort)  (Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> It doesn't seem to be particularly platform-specific, but I've been
> unable to reproduce it so far. It seems on older gcc versions, though.

It's looking kind of like an uninitialized-memory problem.  Note
the latest from spurfowl,

https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=spurfowl&dt=2020-04-07%2000%3A15%3A05

which got through "make check" and then failed during pg_upgrade's
repetition of the test.  Similarly on rhinoceros.  So there's definitely
instability there even on one machine.

Perhaps something to do with unexpected cache flushes??

            regards, tom lane



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