Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <pgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Daniel Verite wrote: > >> So it looks like the problem would be DLL-related? > > > Is there a problem with a DLL writing to a file descriptor opened by > > application code? I would think not, but perhaps. > > Hmm .... malloc/free are broken in exactly that way in Windows DLLs, > maybe stdio has the same kind of issue? I'd think this would be pretty > well known if true, though. Ah, I have found the cause of the crash, and added documentation about the cause: On Win32, if the <application>libpq</> and the application are compiled with different flags, this function call will crash the application because the internal representation of the <literal>FILE</> pointers differ. While such a mismatch is a problem on all platforms, it is more common on Win32 where the FILE structure changes for debug, for example. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster