Message-Id: <199809080807.KAA07871@hp_server.gefi.home>
From: "Gerald Fischer" <pgsql@gefi.at>
To: "David Hartwig" <daybee@bellatlantic.net>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>,
	"pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org" <pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org>
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 10:07:05 +0000
Reply-To: "Gerald Fischer" <pgsql@gefi.at>
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Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Re: DELETE FROM TABLE doesn't work (AGAIN)

Hi David!

On Mon, 07 Sep 1998 17:48:52 -0400, David Hartwig wrote:

>> >> Please help, because I would need a running system tomorrow :-( (For the moment it will do it without delete, but not for ever).
>> >>
>> >
>> >It is difficult for me to figure out  what your problem is.   What we need is a reproducible sequence of events leading up to the 
crash.
>>
>> Well, no problem :-) I can reproduce the crash. With or without the ODBC-Driver.
>>
>> >If you can reproduce the crash through the psql monitor, then we should work with that.   No sense in adding an extra layer of 
complexity by working through the ODBC
>> driver.
>> >
>> >The same goes for the junkfilter patch.   The errors as you describe, do not point to the junkfilter patch.   Admittedly, it is 
possible.   See if the problem can be reproduced
>> without the junkfilter.
>>
>> Ok, once again.
>>
>> I've installed postgresql 6.3.2 with all patches from ftp.postgresql.org/pub/patches. It worked great, but I could not use the 
ODBC-Driver for stuff like order by and group by
>> (this is the bug where the junkfilter is a workaround, i think).
>
>Correct.   You may want to make sure you have the latest Jet Engine from M$.     
>That are serious bugs in older versions.   See our FAQ at
I've got 3.5, as far as I remember (downloaded from MS some days ago).

>http://www.insightdist.com/psqlodbc         This will not solve our current problem.

Thats right :-(

>> Therefore I installed the junkfilter, compiled again, and now I was able to order/group over the ODBC-Driver.
>> At this time I was happy :-), but than I wanted to make a destroyuser and the backend crashed. I thought it was the 
destroyuser-script, but then I tryed to make a simple
>> 'delete from test;' and this crashed the backend, too :-(.
>> A few minutes ago we found out that triggers wont work, too.
>> Ok, I hoped it was another patch that does not like the junkfilter and I tryed to recompile a completly new version (only with the 
junkfilter applied). The same error occured.
>
>Hmm...  Something is not right here.    I have not problem on either AIX or Caldera Linux and I know others are using the patch 
without any problems.    I doubt if I are going to be
>able to resolve this soon.  I am juggling too many things right now.    Our best bet may be to wait until 6.4

I other words, I should try the snapshot every day or connect me to the cvs and hope for a working system... :-@

>> I hope you can help me, because the only thing I could try is to get another linux-distribution and try it with eg redhat (at the 
moment I use SuSE).
>
>I am not a Linux guru.  So I don't have a clue a to weather this is an issue.

Maybe someone could send me his working binarys to determine if it is a compiler problem, or a 'distribution' problem. It might be an 
old lib or something like this?!

>> PS: Sorry for my bad english...
>
>It way better that my second language.
Thanks.

Best regards,
Gerald Fischer