Re: Server Programming in C: palloc() and pfree()

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 04:16:51PM -0200, Rodrigo Hjort wrote:
> I'm having some problems when using "pfree()" on functions in C.
> Calling it on "psql" gives the exception below on both versions of function
> "insert()" [1,2] if "pfree()" is enabled:
>
> server closed the connection unexpectedly
> This probably means the server terminated abnormally
> before or while processing the request.
> conexão com servidor foi perdida
> (connection to the server was lost)
>
> The strange is that it doesn't happen with the function "delstr()" [3],
> which has "pfree()".
> What could am I doing wrong?

You havn't said how you are calling the functions. For example, did you
declare them as cstring or text? text is not null terminated but a
varlena struct. So if you use text you'll end up with buffer overruns.

Could you provide a complete example with SQL?
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