Re: [HACKERS] Error messages crash backend

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: tih(at)nhh(dot)no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo)
Cc: hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Error messages crash backend
Date: 1998-10-11 17:06:14
Message-ID: 199810111706.NAA15173@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Some time in the last 48 hours, a problem was introduced that causes
> any attempt at an error message to crash the backend:
>
> | barsoom:tih> createdb
> | barsoom:tih> psql
> | Welcome to the POSTGRESQL interactive sql monitor:
> | Please read the file COPYRIGHT for copyright terms of POSTGRESQL
> |
> | type \? for help on slash commands
> | type \q to quit
> | type \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
> | You are currently connected to the database: tih
> |
> | tih=> dfsasdfa;
> | pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly.
> | This probably means the backend terminated abnormally before
> | or while processing the request.
> | We have lost the connection to the backend, so further processing is
> | impossible. Terminating.
> | barsoom:tih>
>
> I did 'gmake distclean', 'cvs update', 'configure', 'gmake all',
> 'gmake install', 'initdb', 'postmaster -i -S' and 'createuser tih'
> just before what's logged above, so it was in a pristine environment.

Very strange. I have made some backend function parameter fixes, but
that should not change anything.

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