Re: Crash in gist insertion on pathological box data

From: Sergey Konoplev <gray(dot)ru(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Crash in gist insertion on pathological box data
Date: 2009-03-26 15:40:38
Message-ID: c3a7de1f0903260840s1bf2a76du53dc7d7d62d8270e@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Andrew Gierth
<andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk> wrote:
> A user on IRC reported a crash (backend segfault) in GiST insertion
> (in 8.3.5 but I can reproduce this in today's HEAD) that turns out
> to be due to misbehaviour of gist_box_picksplit.
>

Andrew, thank you for the test case and report.

p.s. The user Andrew mentioned above is me and if you have a question
to me I am ready to answer it.

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