Re: Should this scare me?

It just happened for the first time yesterday... I will let you know if a pattern emerges... How would I trace it?

Ian Harding
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Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department
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"If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance"

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>>> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> 02/19/03 07:59PM >>>
"Ian Harding" <ianh(at)tpchd(dot)org> writes:
> psql in free(): warning: modified (chunk-) pointer.
> I am used to psql dumping core from time to time, although since upgrading to 7.3.1 it has not happened.
> Then this. Is it anything to fear?

It sure sounds like free() has detected something clobbering memory it
shouldn't --- at a guess, something overrunning a malloc'd buffer by a
few bytes. I'd recommend trying to trace the cause if you can. Is it
readily reproducible?

regards, tom lane