[postgis-devel] Memory alignment issues (was:crash(somehow)resolved)

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-devel-bounces at postgis.refractions.net 
> [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On 
> Behalf Of Michael Fuhr
> Sent: 17 November 2005 23:57
> To: PostGIS Development Discussion
> Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] Memory alignment issues 
> (was:crash(somehow)resolved)

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> The crash is due to an assertion in PostgreSQL that's checked 
> only if the server was built with --enable-cassert.  The code is in
> src/backend/utils/mmgr/mcxt.c:
> 
> 161 MemoryContextDelete(MemoryContext context)
> 162 {
> 163     AssertArg(MemoryContextIsValid(context));
> 
> For anybody doing server-side development it's probably a 
> good idea to test on a server built with --enable-cassert; 
> otherwise some problems might go unnoticed.


Hi Michael,

Thanks for getting to this so quickly. You are in fact right - I've been
developing the transform() patch on a different box than normal and of
course, it hadn't been configured with --enable-cassert. I've rebuilt and
applied a fix to CVS for the two SPI warnings and the assertion failure, and
a CVS checkout now works for me with --enabled-cassert under Linux. Please
let me know how you get with the latest CVS.


Kind regards,

Mark.

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