Geoffrey <esoteric@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Is pcmiler a Postgres-specific backend extension? > No. It's a standalone application that provides an api to build calls > into there product from other applications. What we've done is created > functions that are called from the database that use their api. Did you recompile/relink these glue functions when moving up to the new version? Are they built with debugging enabled? The trace is *really* suspicious given what you say here. I'm inclined to think that what is really happening is that something is jumping to never-never land (via a clobbered function pointer or overwriting a return address on the stack) and it just happens to end up in FileRead. Unfortunately that guess doesn't provide much help for debugging it :-( regards, tom lane