I am facing an interesting core dump: action=# select version(); version ------------------------------------------------------------- PostgreSQL 7.2 on i586-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC 2.95.3 (1 row)
When computing the distance between a point and a box everything seems to be ok: action=# select '1,1'::point <-> '2,2,2,2'::box from t_struktur limit 3; ?column? ----------------- 1.4142135623731 1.4142135623731 1.4142135623731 (3 rows) Let's have a look at the data structure of the table: action=# \d t_struktur Table "t_struktur" Column | Type | Modifiers --------+--------------------------+------------------------------------------------------- tstamp | timestamp with time zone | default now() id | bigint | not null default nextval('"t_struktur_id_seq"'::text) koord | box | typid | bigint | Indexes: idx_struktur_koord, idx_struktur_typid Primary key: t_struktur_pkey Rules: rule_struktur_del, rule_struktur_upd When using the field koord instead of a static box the system will core dump: action=# select '1,1'::point <-> koord from t_struktur limit 3; server closed the connection unexpectedly This probably means the server terminated abnormally before or while processing the request. The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Failed. !# These are the first three records in the table: action=# SELECT * FROM t_struktur LIMIT 3; tstamp | id | koord | typid -------------------------------+----+-------------+------- 2002-05-08 14:30:17.594642+02 | 4 | (1,1),(1,1) | 4 2002-05-07 12:28:07.113876+02 | 2 | (4,3),(2,1) | 4 2002-05-08 14:36:15.152699+02 | 5 | (3,4),(1,2) | 3 (3 rows) The strangen thing is that using the values directly seems to work pretty well: action=# SELECT '1,1'::point <-> '1,1,1,1'::box FROM t_struktur LIMIT 3; ?column? ---------- 0 0 0 (3 rows) action=# SELECT '1,1'::point <-> '4,3,2,1'::box FROM t_struktur LIMIT 3; ?column? ---------- 1 1 1 (3 rows) action=# SELECT '1,1'::point <-> '3,4,1,2'::box FROM t_struktur LIMIT 3; ?column? ---------- 1 1 1 (3 rows) Does anybody have an idea why the problem occurs? Hans ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly