Didn't we just clean up a mess in our XML handling to do with memory 
handlers? It looks like contrib/xml2 might have similar problems. Here's 
the relevant part of a back trace from a core dump:

Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x000000000069300a in pfree ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x000000000069300a in pfree ()
#1  0x000000356c42e0ee in xmlCleanupCharEncodingHandlers () from 
/usr/lib64/libxml2.so.2
#2  0x000000356c436675 in xmlCleanupParser () from /usr/lib64/libxml2.so.2
#3  0x00002aaab072c5b6 in xslt_process () from 
/bk/xxxx/dbinst-84/lib/postgresql/pgxml.so

this was generated from the following call (XML afficionados will 
realise I was trying to pretty print the XML):

select xslt_process( cb_ob_invoice_xml(1,1)::text,
$$<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />

<xsl:template match="*">
   <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:copy-of select="@*" />
      <xsl:apply-templates />
   </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="comment()|processing-instruction()">
   <xsl:copy />
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
$$::text
);


cheers

andrew

Responses

• Re: contrib/xml2 pfree bug at 2009-07-24 22:18:47 from Tom Lane
• Re: contrib/xml2 pfree bug at 2010-02-28 20:15:31 from Tom Lane

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