Craig James wrote: > Here is my guess -- and this is just a guess. My functions use a > third-party library which, of necessity, uses malloc/free in the > ordinary way. I suspect that there's a bug in the Postgres palloc() > code that's walking over memory that regular malloc() allocates. The > third-party library (OpenBabel) has been tested pretty thoroughly by > me an others and has no memory corruption problems. All malloc's are > freed properly. Does that seem like a possibility? Not really. palloc uses malloc underneath. -- Alvaro Herrera Valdivia, Chile ICBM: S 39º 49' 18.1", W 73º 13' 56.4" "La vida es para el que se aventura" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings