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1. psql client segfault

   Thomas Linden <tom@daemon.de> — 2000-11-02T23:42:30Z

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   hi, me again :-)
   
   
   ok, after installing the rpm's everything was fine except connecting to
   the database using the supplied client program psql. It ended with a
   segmentation fault. So I thought it would be a good idea to try to install
   the software from source.
   
   The problem is, psql still exists with a segfault :-(
   After the segfault the terminal became unusable, that's why I think it
   could have to something with curses ...?
   
   My setup:
   
   RedHat 5.2 (yes)
   glibc 2.1.2-11
   Kernel 2.2.12-20
   ncurses 4.2-10
   termcap 9.12.6-15
   readline 2.2.1-1
   
   I get the segfault both as postgres user or as any other user (including
   root). createdb/createuser works well, compilation of the sources too, no
   errors or warnings (well, some really unimportant unused defs...).
   
   I don't want to bother everybody on this list with huge attachments, so I
   put the coredump as well as the strace output on my webpage:
   
   http://www.0x49.org/~scip/psql-7.0.2-segfault.strace.tar.gz.
   
   Thanks in advance,
   	Thomas
   
   
   
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2. Re: psql client segfault

   Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> — 2000-11-03T01:05:48Z

   A corefile is of no value to anyone running on a platform even slightly
   different from your own.  Could you please compile psql with -g,
   reproduce the problem, and then send in a gdb backtrace from that core?
   
   Also, what exactly are you doing that provokes the coredump?
   
   FWIW, I have a RedHat 5.1 box on which I sometimes test postgres,
   so the mere fact that your system is old isn't the issue.
   
   			regards, tom lane