Jeff Amiel wrote: > Stack trace looks eerily familiar: > > Core was generated by `/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D /db'. > Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. > #0 0xfee8ec23 in sk_value () from /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 > > *grumble* Did you try installing the OpenSSL with debugging symbols and getting a better stack trace? If this is a bug in OpenSSL I'm sure they'd like to hear it. Some random browsing shows that sk_value is part of a stack implementation in OpenSSL which has been there for many years. http://www.openssl.org/news/changelog.html http://www.columbia.edu/~ariel/ssleay/stack.html -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support