Bug #488: Apache daemon dying on segfault from postgres

Darrell Parlee (darrell(at)parlee(dot)net) reports a bug with a severity of 2
The lower the number the more severe it is.

Short Description
Apache daemon dying on segfault from postgres

Long Description
I have stable code that runs without change from one iteration to the next. Get sporadic failures which indicate either a wild pointer problem or use of an uninitialized variable. Problem can't be consistently reproduced with a specific test case (well, at least I have not found it yet). But I did capture the following detail:

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pgsql.c(167) : Block 0x0853D400 status:
Beginning: Overrun (magic=0x5A5A5A5A, expected=0x7312F8DC)
[Fri Oct 19 16:19:45 2001] [notice] child pid 8062 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Fri Oct 19 16:20:03 2001] Script: '/home/httpd/ContractServer/pace/createtables.shtml'
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pgsql.c(167) : Block 0x085363E0 status:
Beginning: Overrun (magic=0x00000000, expected=0x7312F8DC)
End: Unknown
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File system content allows for growth, and no hardware errors are recorded by the logging daemons. This problem first began (as best I can recall) after adopting the 7.0 release. It has been present in every upgrade since then (.1/.2/.3).

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