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POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE
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Your name : Silvio Macedo
Your email address : smacedo@ic.ac.uk
(or smacedo@inescn.pt)
System Configuration
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Architecture (example: Intel Pentium) : Sun Ultrasparc 1
(143Mhz, 2.1 Gb disk, 64Mb RAM)
Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF) : Linux 2.2.12 ELF, (RH6.1)
PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-6.5.3): PostgreSQL-6.5.3/2/SNAP
Compiler used (example: gcc 2.8.0) : gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
(comes with RH6.1)
GNUlibc 2.1.2
Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
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In 64 bit machines like the Ultraparc, strncmp can return -256.
In src/backend/utils/adt/name.c you do:
return (bool) strncmp(arg1->data, arg2->data, NAMEDATALEN) == 0;
In this way you are casting strncmp to bool, and not the comparison.
This is the description of the consequences, that I sent before I
discovered the problem:
(I am giving a really detailed description to maximize the chances that
you find the solution to my problem)
I have installed postgres many times in several Linux/Intel systems.
Now, I am trying to install Pg 6.5.3 ( or any other version of Pg) in a
Linux/(ultra)Sparc system. The system seems stable in any task other than
postgres stuff, but when I run initdb, it always dies with and error
about :
"Attribute 'aggtransfn1' is repeated."
I have downloaded source distribution PG 6.5.3, PG Snapshot, PG 6.5.2
and RPM binaries of Pg from RedHat 6.1 distribution and even SRPMS.
In all of them, after compiling and/or installing, when I do the initdb
-d, the script dies with this message:
> <aggname name>
<aggowner int4>
<aggtransfn1 regproc>
<aggtransfn2 regproc>
<aggfinalfn regproc>
<aggbasetype oid>
<aggtranstype1 oid>
<aggtranstype2 oid>
<aggfinaltype oid>
<agginitval1 text>
<agginitval2 text>
> ERROR: Attribute 'aggtransfn1' is repeated
ERROR: Attribute 'aggtransfn1' is repeated
initdb: could not create template database
initdb: cleaning up by wiping out /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/template1
I have also tried initdb with the full command line, etc..
This happens with all the versions of Pg that I have tested:
Pg Snapshot 22 Nov
Pg 6.5.3,
Pg 6.5.2,
Binaries in RPM from RedHat 6.1 Sparc
Source SRPM from '' ''
Then, I investigated the problem deeper, and deeper.
If I remove aggtransfn2 from the local1.????.bki.source, it gives the same
error in agginitval2.
I replaced the ERROR with a NOTICE on the elog on the file
src/backend/catalog/heap.c in the function CheckAttributeNames() and
everything went ok until I started regression tests. Lots of 'failed'
appeared in the char/string related tests, and those were real problems,
because I checked it myself (not just little differences); the backend
closed connection in some tests.
I then added some lines in the src/backend/catalog/heap.c to see if the
strings were read ok and if NAMEDATALEN was ok. Yes, they were.
aggtransfn1 was compared to aggransfn2 by a call to nameeq(), and this
function returned that they were equal (obviously they differ on the last
character).
Then, finally I replaced the call to nameeq to a direct strncmp() between
both tuple->data's and it worked. The regression tests still failed.
Maybe there is a problem in the strncmp libraries in my system ? oh no...
[PS: The source of this problem as I wrote above, is in Postgres name.c
file, in nameeq() ]
Please describe a way to repeat the problem. Please try to provide a
concise reproducible example, if at all possible:
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configure --with-x --with-tcl --with-template=linux_sparc
make
make install
cd /usr/local/pgsql
initdb
If you know how this problem might be fixed, list the solution below:
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I send both diff -f and diff -u in attach
--- postgresql-6.5.3/src/backend/utils/adt/name.c Mon Aug 2 06:24:55 1999
+++ postgresql-6.5.3.my/src/backend/utils/adt/name.c Thu Nov 25 11:53:39 1999
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
if (!arg1 || !arg2)
return 0;
else
- return (bool) strncmp(arg1->data, arg2->data, NAMEDATALEN) == 0;
+ return (bool) (strncmp(arg1->data, arg2->data, NAMEDATALEN) == 0);
}
bool
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Silvio Emanuel Nunes Barbosa de Macedo
smacedo@ic.ac.uk smacedo@inescn.pt
Imperial College, University of London INESC Porto
Intelligent and Interactive Systems Telecom. and Multimedia
Exhibition Road, Pc da Republica, 93
London SW7 2AZ, England 4050-497 PORTO PORTUGAL
Tel:+44 171 5946323 Tel:+351 22 2094220
