On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 16:26 -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> Follow up on this. It is pl/sh and it is a newline issue: one of the
> developers is using a tool (I think pgadmin?) that is sticking \r
> characters at the end of every line which is throwing off pl/sh's
> shebang parsing. The issuing query gets an error along the lines of
> 'could not exec' and the server goes belly up if there is significant
> concurrent load when that's issued. This is an out of date pl/sh, so
> I'm going to upgrade it and try and reproduce. If I still can, I'll
> supply a test case.
I had received an independent report of this cr/lf issue and fixed it
now. But that doesn't explain why the server would crash.