Thanks, Norbert! I'll run the perl 5.10 upgrade past the guys. Sam On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Norbert Zacharias <zac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Moin, > >> Howdy, >> >> Environment: >> >> Postgres 8.3.13 >> Solaris 10 >> >> I have a SELECT query that runs no problem standalone but when running >> within a perl script it intermittently core dumps. Random, no pattern >> to the timing of the core dumps. The perl script processes the rows >> from the query, if the rows satisfy a condition then the perl script >> adds the rows to another table. When the script works it runs for >> about a minute. If the script fails, it runs for about 5 minutes and >> core dumps. The core dump is in the perl error handling routines. We >> suspect the bug is related to how the perl postgres libraries interact >> with postgres. > > This might be more a question for a perl group. > >>> perl -V >> Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration: > > May be an upgrade to 5.10 will solve the problem ? > >> Anyone have any ideas? > > see above ;-) > > Regards > Norbert > > -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin