Tom,
I'm puzzled!
I tried postgresql 7.3 and 7.3.1 and they both fail regressin when
creating plpgsql language. However, when installed, createlang plpgsql
template1 work like a charm.
Could it be because the machine is slow (and disks too!)
Regards,On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 13:44:51 -0500
> From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> To: ohp@pyrenet.fr
> Cc: pgsql-hackers list <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Problems with 7.3.1
>
> Olivier PRENANT <ohp@pyrenet.fr> writes:
> > Compile works ok however make check fails wile creating pl/pgsql with :
> > WARNING: bt_getroot[pg_proc_proname_nsp_index]: fixing root page
> > ERROR: bt_fixroot: not valid old root page.
>
> Wow. Is the behavior reproducible? How about if you go ahead and
> install, and do a plain "make installcheck" (or even just try a manual
> createlang in a fresh database)?
>
> That code thinks it is dealing with a concurrent index root page split,
> but there couldn't be any concurrent operations happening during the
> create-plpgsql step of a regression test run. Can you step through
> _bt_getroot() (it's in src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtpage.c) and figure
> out exactly how it's getting confused?
>
> If the behavior is reproducible I'm inclined to suspect a compiler bug;
> it's hard to see how _bt_getroot could get so confused otherwise.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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