Re: [BUG] CRASH: ECPGprepared_statement() and ECPGdeallocate_all() when connection is NULL

Alexander Lakhin <exclusion(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> There is no other useful information in the log, so it's not clear what's
> wrong with that animal (no other gives us such failures), but I could
> produce something similar (on FreeBSD and Linux) with:
> echo "max_connections = 10" >/tmp/temp.config; TEMP_CONFIG=/tmp/temp.config gmake -s check -C src/interfaces/ecpg/test

Yes, I can also reproduce problems with the ecpg tests at
max_connections = 10. For me, thread/prep segfaults but thread/alloc
just seems to hang indefinitely. (thread/prep sometimes does too.)
These issues are not new; v18 does the same. The reporting is a
bit different but I think that's from pg_regress changes not ecpg.

Looking at the postmaster log, I see

2026-05-05 16:11:06.509 EDT [682116] FATAL: sorry, too many clients already

which is unsurprising in this situation, but apparently these tests
don't handle a connection failure well at all.

There's no such message in dikkop's log, so that may be an unrelated problem.

BTW, reducing max_connections to 5 causes several other tests to fail,
but in unsurprising ways, like

# +SQL error: could not connect to database "ecpg1_regression" on line 107
# +SQL error: could not connect to database "ecpg1_regression" on line 107
# +SQL error: could not connect to database "ecpg1_regression" on line 107
# +SQL error: could not connect to database "ecpg1_regression" on line 107

regards, tom lane