Re: [HACKERS] Mac OS X, PostgreSQL, PL/Tcl

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Scott Goodwin <scott(at)scottg(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Mac OS X, PostgreSQL, PL/Tcl
Date: 2004-02-22 17:21:48
Message-ID: 17657.1077470508@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Scott Goodwin <scott(at)scottg(dot)net> writes:
> Found the problem. If I have a very long environment variable exported
> and I start PG, PG crashes when I try to load PG/Tcl. In my case I use
> color ls and I have a very long LS_COLORS environment variable set.

Interesting. Did you check whether the limiting factor is the longest
variable length, or the total size of the environment? ("env|wc" would
probably do as an approximation for the latter.)

regards, tom lane

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