hi List, As a result of writing a C 'postgres' function, I have a memory corruption problem. Something is either being free twice or I am accessing beyond the data structure and corrupting the malloc/free/sbrk memory pool. My attempts to memory support in glibc, that been stopped because something seems to clear the envron before the postgres/postmaster program is started(well ps does not report an envronment setting for this process) Memory checking programs such as valgrind want direct control over the postgres/postmaster process, ie they must fork the process and not the postgres startup script from /etc/rc2.d Q. How do inoke the postgres startup in such a way that my current terminal becomes the controling terminal for the postgres/postmaster process? I do not want to run the postgres/postmaster program as a background deamin style process. Thanks in advance Dave. -- -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general