Re: 8.3.0 backend segfaults

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 8.3.0 backend segfaults
Date: 2008-03-12 15:39:14
Message-ID: 19542.1205336354@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> writes:
> Are you sure you are calling DBI->connect *after* the Apache children
> are created? Major problems like this can happen if not.

Something like that might explain a crash in the Apache server, but
hardly one in the PG backend.

It looks to me like he's found a dangling-pointer problem, but we need
to reproduce it before we can determine a fix...

regards, tom lane

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