Issues with C++ exception handling in an FDW

Hello,

I've run into a very odd issue calling C++ code that uses exceptions from within our PostgreSQL FDW. Specifically, we have broken our FDW into two components, a C layer that looks quite similar to the FDW for text files and a C++ layer that is called into by the C layer to interface with our storage file format.

We compile these two components into separate shared libraries, thus we have:

c-fdw.so
c++-fdw.so

and the c-fdw.so is compiled using -Wl,-rpath to allow it to find the c++-fdw.so at load time.

When there are no errors everything works flawlessly, however, we noticed that even throwing an exception in the C++ layer was causing an immediate segmentation fault. Even when encapsulated in a try { } catch(...) { } block.

If anyone has seen anything like this, any pointers or suggestions would be much appreciated. I have followed all of the recommendations in the PostgreSQL documentation, with no luck. I am not overloading the _init() functions in either shared library (another potential source of errors I have read about).

Thanks!
Craig Soules