Hi,

    after spending 3 hours in gdb I found it :-)

    Symptom:
        select  from  a  table  with  attrs  (a  int, b char(20))
        crashed in bpcharout() (palloc of -1 bytes). But a  table
        with attrs (a int, b varchar(20)) worked.

    Bug location:
        Function  nocachegetattr()  in  access/common/heaptuple.c
        line 557.  Really surprising - and really hard to find  -
        phew.


Until later, Jan

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*** heaptuple.c	Thu Feb  5 15:21:50 1998
--- heaptuple.c.old	Thu Feb  5 15:21:39 1998
***************
*** 554,560 ****
  		while (att[j]->attcacheoff > 0)
  			j++;
  
! 		if (!VARLENA_FIXED_SIZE(att[j - 1]))
  			off = att[j - 1]->attcacheoff + att[j - 1]->attlen;
  		else
  			off = att[j - 1]->attcacheoff + att[j - 1]->atttypmod;
--- 554,560 ----
  		while (att[j]->attcacheoff > 0)
  			j++;
  
! 		if (!VARLENA_FIXED_SIZE(att[j]))
  			off = att[j - 1]->attcacheoff + att[j - 1]->attlen;
  		else
  			off = att[j - 1]->attcacheoff + att[j - 1]->atttypmod;

Thu, 5 Feb 1998 15:32:19 +0100 (MET)
jwieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck)
Bugfix for bpchar