Re: How do you handle shared memory corruption issues? (contrib/xml2)

Hi CG

looks as if your 64bit box needs 64bit libraries instead of default 32 bit

did you check here
http://dries.studentenweb.org/apt/packages/perl-XML-LibXSLT/info.html

Let us know
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----- Original Message -----
From: "CG" <cgg007(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: "postgresql listserv" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 12:02 PM
Subject: [GENERAL] How do you handle shared memory corruption issues?
(contrib/xml2)

> Postgresql 8.1
>
> I made a simple modification to contrib/xml2 to include the ability to
> process exslt tags... On the production side, the postmaster crashes when
> I try to process my exslt stylesheet. On my development machine,
> everything runs without crashing. There's a number of differences there...
> There's little or no load. It has far less memory, and its PostgreSQL
> memory configuration reflects that. It has a different processor (P4
> versus x86_64 on production). There are other differences at the compiler
> and library level I'm sure. Any of these things could be contributing to
> the crashes.
>
> They are both using the same version of PsotgreSQL, compiled with the same
> options. They are both using the same version of libxml2 and libxslt.
>
> Incidently, I installed the Perl bindings for libxml2 and libxslt. I
> created a plperlu function which uses those libraries to do the xml
> transformations. It blows up in the same way.
>
> So, I suspect that there is an issue with libxslt, but I have no idea how
> to nail it down. Please advise...
>
> I'm up against a deadline, so my main goal is to get this working.
> Timelines and paychecks being as they are, I'm not nearly as concerned
> about fixing the larger problem. Is there a different way to process xml
> and (e)xslt at the database not using contrib/xml2 or XML::LibXSLT ?
>
>
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