Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: > Seneca Cunningham wrote: > >>On an powerPC AIX 5.3 box, initdb from 8.1beta4 segfaults at >>src/backend/utils/hash/dynahash.c:673. No segfaults occur and all 98 >>regression tests pass if a test is added to see if keycopy is memcpy and >>if it is, go through a loop memcpying one byte at a time instead of >>memcpying everything at once. > > > looks like I'm seeing a similiar problem(using -HEAD) on AIX 5.3ML3 > using the IBM AIX c-compiler. initdb just hangs after "selecting default > max_connections ..." in a 100% CPU-loop.
yeah this seems to be the very same issue. A backtrace of a stuck initdb-process looks like: (gdb) bt #0 0x10006f10 in bcopy () #1 0x1001d398 in hash_search (hashp=0x1001d85c, keyPtr=0xf020f9fc, action=804399456, foundPtr=0x20029d78 "") at dynahash.c:673 #2 0x100a5e58 in formrdesc (relationName=0x2006bf38 "t\emplat\e1", relationReltype=0, hasoids=0 '\0', natts=0, att=0x200100f8) at relcache.c:1295 #3 0x100a818c in RelationCacheInitialize () at relcache.c:2160 #4 0x102016ec in InitPostgres (dbname=0xd025b7f0 "\200A", username=0x2 "") at postinit.c:424 #5 0x102009e8 in BootstrapMain (argc=271528, argv=0xb0002) at bootstrap.c:445 #6 0x10000578 in main (argc=0, argv=0x0) at main.c:285 #7 0x1000022c in __start () Stefan ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match