Re: Huge amount of memory errors with libpq

On Sunday 12 September 2010 5:44:26 pm you wrote:
> Casey Jones <jonescaseyb(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > I don't think valgrind is the only issue here because outside valgrind my
> > data is getting magically overwritten. In the function causing that
> > problem I set all the fields I wanted to set by hand instead of using
> > PQgetvalue().
> >
> > If I leave PQexec() uncommented, my data in a totally unrelated area
> > would
> >
> > change, but when I comment it out I get the expected results. There
> > might be an error I'm making thats causing this, but I can't find it in
> > valgrind because of the huge number of errors.
>
> FWIW, that test case shows no errors at all for me, on an x86_64 running
> Fedora 13. I'd suggest trying it on something other than Gentoo.
>
> regards, tom lane

I set up Fedora 13 and ran the test case, and I didn't get any errors. I also
tested my project and it had significantly fewer errors. So yeah, it looks
like a glibc problem on Gentoo. Thanks for the help everyone.

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Casey Jones