Hi Tom, I already compiled postgreSQL myself and now using 9.3.4, so I would very much like a patch. Where can I find that ? Leif ----- Original Message ----- > Leif Jensen <leif@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Could it be related to the OFFSET part of the statement ? I have > > another query on the same table without OFFSET, which seems to > > work fine. > > Yeah, the specific code path here involves executing a stable (or > possibly > immutable) SQL function in a LIMIT or OFFSET clause. I was able to > reproduce the crash like so: > > create function foo(int) returns int as 'select $1 limit 1' > language sql stable; > > begin; > > declare c cursor for select * from int8_tbl limit foo(3); > > select * from c; > > move backward all in c; > > select * from c; > > commit; > > You might be able to dodge the problem if you can make the SQL > function > inline-able (the LIMIT 1 in my example is just to prevent that from > happening). A less appealing alternative is to mark the function > VOLATILE, which I think would also prevent this crash, but might have > negative performance consequences. > > If you don't mind building your own PG then you could grab the actual > fix > from our git repo; I should have something committed before long. > > regards, tom lane