Re: Trouble w/plperl sproc on red hat 9

Kenneth Downs <ken(at)secdat(dot)com> writes:

> Not sure if this one is fixable, but a user of my GPL'd package was
> unable to run our install.
>
> Eventually we pinned it down to a failed load of a sproc written in
> plperl. He says he's running a Red Hat 9 system with Postgres 8.1 and
> perl is 5.8.5. When he takes the plperl sproc and attempts to load it
> through pgsql he gets:
>
>
> **** SQL ERROR ****: server closed the connection unexpectedly
> This probably means the server terminated abnormally
> before or while processing the request.
>
> Does this ring any bells w/regard to possible version mismatches or
> known issues?

It would probably be helpful to get a backtrace of the core dump
generated by the crashing backend.

-Doug