Re: Seg fault on PQconnectdb

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Joe La Frite <joelafrite84(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Seg fault on PQconnectdb
Date: 2010-10-13 14:06:48
Message-ID: AANLkTimxv=WKcyK-ixpQ4vFyTnNwL-zLAiZXEhNNusmC@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Joe La Frite <joelafrite84(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I'm trying to use libpq in my application, but it crashes with a seg fault
> when trying to connect. The call stack is as follows : malloc_consolidate <
> _int_malloc < malloc < makeEmptyPGconn < PQconnectStart < PQconnectdb < my
> own application.
> I have no clue as to what causes this. Sample programs that only do a call
> to PQconnectdb work fine. My application uses a complex build script so I
> suspect it may be a compiling or linking problem, but there are no errors
> reported, and ldd points to the correct version of libpq.so.
> I've tried googling but could not find anything useful. I would really
> appreciate some help. Thanks in advance!
> (English is not my first language so I apologize if there are mistakes or
> I'm not being very clear.)
> Joe L.F.

hm, crashing in malloc. is your application multi threaded?

merlin

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