Re: BUG #2246: Bad malloc interactions: ecpg, openssl

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Andy Klosterman" <andrew5(at)ece(dot)cmu(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #2246: Bad malloc interactions: ecpg, openssl
Date: 2006-02-09 01:10:34
Message-ID: 21904.1139447434@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Andy Klosterman" <andrew5(at)ece(dot)cmu(dot)edu> writes:
> SPECULATION: Another possibility is that I misunderstand some aspect of
> multi-threaded interactions with Postgres (I open uniquely named connections
> to the DB for each thread of my test program). Maybe I need to have a
> "lock" around the code that makes DB connections and make sure that only one
> happens at a time (might be better handled within Postgres/SSL if that is
> the case).

There could be some re-entrancy problem in the SSL connection startup
code --- if you add such a lock, does it get more reliable? Also, did
you remember to build PG with --enable-thread-safety ?

regards, tom lane

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