Re: [INTERFACES] PQfinish kills my app

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Rob Brown-Bayliss <rob(at)ZOOstation(dot)cc>
Cc: Postgres Mailing list <pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] PQfinish kills my app
Date: 1999-11-18 05:45:47
Message-ID: 27686.942903947@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Rob Brown-Bayliss <rob(at)ZOOstation(dot)cc> writes:
> So I don't understand why it dies on PQfinish one way but not the
> other. But, if I do not call exit_nicely (ie: just end without
> PQfinish) ir dies on option -v but works for option -a

Kinda sounds like you might be calling PQfinish more than once on
the same connection object. That's a no-no.

> PS: By die I mean seagfault, I traced wit with gdb to the PQfinish
> function. As I am new to the GNU tools (and fairly new to C) I am not
> sure whats going on. I could post the code, but was not sure about the
> list rules, it's 8 k long.

People have posted much larger messages than 8k with less reason.
If the multiple-calls idea doesn't pan out, let's see it...

regards, tom lane

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