I was just testing a simple plperlu function to return the existence of a directory and as soon I pasted the function into psql and hit Enter, I got the following crash: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION does_directory_exist(p_path_and_directory TEXT, OUT does_it_exist TEXT) RETURNS TEXT AS $BODY$ my $path_and_directory = shift(@_); my $does_it_exist = 'false'; if ( -d "$path_and_directory" ) { $does_it_exist = "true"; } return "$does_it_exist"; $BODY$ LANGUAGE plperlu VOLATILE COST 100 SECURITY DEFINER; server closed the connection unexpectedly This probably means the server terminated abnormally before or while processing the request. The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Failed. Excerpt from the log 2011-08-24 08:55:57 PDT [25795]: [448-1] (user=) (rhost=) LOG: server process (PID 9474) was terminated by signal 11: Segmentation fault 2011-08-24 08:55:57 PDT [25795]: [449-1] (user=) (rhost=) LOG: terminating any other active server processes 2011-08-24 08:55:57 PDT [10309]: [21-1] (user=nbaffnet) (rhost=192.168.96.183) WARNING: terminating connection because of crash of another server process 2011-08-24 08:55:57 PDT [10309]: [22-1] (user=nbaffnet) (rhost=192.168.96.183) DETAIL: The postmaster has commanded this server process to roll back the current transaction and exit, because another server process exited abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory. 2011-08-24 08:55:57 PDT [10309]: [23-1] (user=nbaffnet) (rhost=192.168.96.183) HINT: In a moment you should be able to reconnect to the database and repeat your command. ... 2011-08-24 08:55:58 PDT [25795]: [451-1] (user=) (rhost=) LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing 2011-08-24 08:56:00 PDT [14436]: [1-1] (user=nbaffnet) (rhost=192.168.96.202) FATAL: the database system is in recovery mode 2011-08-24 08:56:00 PDT [14437]: [1-1] (user=postgres) (rhost=[local]) FATAL: the database system is in recovery mode 2011-08-24 08:56:00 PDT [14441]: [1-1] (user=nbaffnet) (rhost=192.168.96.201) FATAL: the database system is in recovery mode 2011-08-24 08:56:00 PDT [14447]: [1-1] (user=nbaffnet) (rhost=192.168.96.200) FATAL: the database system is in recovery mode 2011-08-24 08:56:00 PDT [14446]: [1-1] (user=nbaffnet) (rhost=192.168.96.200) FATAL: the database system is in recovery mode 2011-08-24 08:56:00 PDT [14435]: [1-1] (user=) (rhost=) LOG: database system was interrupted; last known up at 2011-08-24 08:55:13 PDT 2011-08-24 08:56:00 PDT [14435]: [2-1] (user=) (rhost=) LOG: database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress 2011-08-24 08:56:00 PDT [14435]: [3-1] (user=) (rhost=) LOG: consistent recovery state reached at 3A3B/CCFBD7C8 2011-08-24 08:56:00 PDT [14435]: [4-1] (user=) (rhost=) LOG: redo starts at 3A3B/C7321A10 ... select * from pg_language ; lanname | lanowner | lanispl | lanpltrusted | lanplcallfoid | laninline | lanvalidator | lanacl ----------+----------+---------+--------------+---------------+-----------+--------------+-------- internal | 10 | f | f | 0 | 0 | 2246 | c | 10 | f | f | 0 | 0 | 2247 | sql | 10 | f | t | 0 | 0 | 2248 | plperl | 10 | t | t | 16545 | 16546 | 16547 | plperlu | 10 | t | f | 16545 | 16546 | 16547 | plpgsql | 10 | t | t | 11571 | 11572 | 11573 | (6 rows) select version(); version ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PostgreSQL 9.0.2 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48), 64-bit Are there any known bugs with plperlu and 9.0.2? I did a quick search of the archives and the only somewhat-relevant report I could find was http://markmail.org/message/iib5eu7qgtazaorg -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general