A 9.1Beta1 test report from Richard Broersma (and confirmed on another
system by Mark Watson) showed up pgsql-testers this week at
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-testers/2011-05/msg00000.php with
the following test crashing his Windows server every time:
SELECT 'INFINITY'::TIMESTAMP;
That works fine for me on Linux. Richard chased the error in the logs,
which was a generic "you can't touch that memory" one, down to a full
stack trace:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-testers/2011-05/msg00009.php
It looks like it's losing its mind inside of
src/backend/utils/adt/datetime.c , specifically at this line in datebsearch:
3576 while (last >= base) 3577 { 3578 position = base + ((last - base) >> 1); 3579
result= key[0] - position->token[0];
Why crash there only on Windows? Was the problem actually introduced
above this part of the code? These are all questions I have no answer for.
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