Re: Buildfarm failures for hash indexes: buffer leaks - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Fabien COELHO
Subject Re: Buildfarm failures for hash indexes: buffer leaks
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Msg-id alpine.DEB.2.21.1810270814220.3965@lancre
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In response to Re: Buildfarm failures for hash indexes: buffer leaks  (Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>)
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Hello Jeff,

>> I suspect the easiest thing to narrow it down would be to bisect the
>> problem in gcc :(
>
> Their commit r265241 is what broke the PostgreSQL build.  It also broke the
> compiler itself--at that commit it was no longer possible to build itself.
> I had to --disable-bootstrap in order to get a r265241 compiler to test
> PostgreSQL on.

It seems they have done a API change around some kind of "range" analysis, 
which must have been incomplete.

> Their commit r265375 fixed the ability to compile itself, but built
> PostgreSQL binaries remain broken there and thereafter.
>
> |...]

Thanks a lot for this investigation! I can fill in a gcc bug report. There 
would be a enormous work to narrow it down to a small test case, it is 
unclear how they can act about it, but at least they would know.

-- 
Fabien.


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