Wow, the beta is actually for people to test out if their applications will
work on the new version 6.5. It is by no way for actual use, only for
testing.
Please use 6.4.2 until 6.5 is released.

Marc, can you name the betas something like alpha and not beta,
since beta seems to sound like something to use for productive work
to a lot of people (like everyone uses squid beta versions)

Andreas
> ----------
> Von: 	Ari Halberstadt[SMTP:ari@shore.net]
> Gesendet: 	Dienstag, 25. Mai 1999 20:21
> An: 	Postgres Hackers List
> Betreff: 	[HACKERS] pg_dump core dump, upgrading from 6.5b1 to 5/24
> snapshot
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I posted a related question yesterday to the general list, but Bruce
> Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> suggested it belongs on the hackers
> list.
> 
> Using pg_dump with 6.5b1 on solaris sparc crashes with a core dump. This
> means I can't keep backups and I can't upgrade my data model without being
> able to export the old data.
> 
> On Bruce's suggestion I tried upgrading to a recent snapshot (in this case
> the one from 5/24). When I killed the old postmaster and started the new
> postmaster I got the following error in psql:
> 
> bboard=> \d
> ERROR:  nodeRead: Bad type 0
> 
> which sounds to me like maybe there was a change in the data format. Since
> I can't use pg_dump to get my data out of 6.5b1 I'm a bit stuck now. For
> now I've (quickly) gone back to using 6.5b1 and not the snapshot.
> 
> If one of the developers wants debug info on the coredump let me know what
> you need (e.g., what commands to do in gdb--though I'll have to install
> this or get run permissions from the sysadmin). I did a quick stack trace
> in adb and it was dead in a call to fprintf, which I know does nothing to
> help pinpoint the bug but it sounds like a typical way to kill a C
> program.
> 
> -- Ari Halberstadt mailto:ari@shore.net <http://www.magiccookie.com/>
> PGP public key available at <http://www.magiccookie.com/pgpkey.txt>
> 
> 
> 
> 

Tue, 25 May 1999 20:39:00 +0200
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