Re: [HACKERS] pqReadData()

> Hi Bruce, last Sunday you helped me with libpq.so.1. Now I'm in trouble
> to start psql. I think that all is clean, but I get allways the same
> error message when starting psql. The whole week I can only see this:
>
> marliesle$ ps ax | grep post
> 3140 p1 S 0:00 postmaster -d 3 -i
> 6623 p1 S 0:00 grep post
> marliesle$ kill 3140
> marliesle$ postmaster -i &
> [1] 6624
> marliesle$ psql verlag
> Connection to database 'verlag' failed.
> pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly.
> This probably means the backend terminated abnormally before or
> while processing the request.
> marliesle$

Run the postmaster as:

nohup postmaster -i >log 2>&1 &

and check the log file after the failure. You may also need to rerun
initdb because the source tree is changing so much.

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> A etags search points me to src/interfaces/libpq/fe-misc.c. I am using the
> latest CVS. I hope someone will introduce cvsweb so I can see any changes
> to the source tree.
>
> -Egon
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