On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 16:06, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Joe La Frite <joelafrite84@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I'm trying to use libpq in my application, but it crashes with a seg fault > > when trying to connect. The call stack is as follows : malloc_consolidate < > > _int_malloc < malloc < makeEmptyPGconn < PQconnectStart < PQconnectdb < my > > own application. > > I have no clue as to what causes this. Sample programs that only do a call > > to PQconnectdb work fine. My application uses a complex build script so I > > suspect it may be a compiling or linking problem, but there are no errors > > reported, and ldd points to the correct version of libpq.so. > > I've tried googling but could not find anything useful. I would really > > appreciate some help. Thanks in advance! > > (English is not my first language so I apologize if there are mistakes or > > I'm not being very clear.) > > Joe L.F. > > hm, crashing in malloc. is your application multi threaded? > > merlin No, single thread only. Tough after some testing, I'm fairly sure the problem isn't caused by libpq at all. I think the heap gets corrupted at some point before the call to PQconnectdb is made, as replacing the call by a simple void* test = malloc(10) causes it to crash as well. Thanks for replying anyway. :) -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
