rob wrote: > I am trying to build a small program with libpq as the interface to a > Postgre database. I am using the most current version. My program > uses malloc and free hooks to manage memory without having to request > memory from the system all the time. I expected that the init > function (__malloc_initialize_hook) would run before anything else, > but after opening a number of connections to the database with > PQconnectdb, my program blows up because of a free which refers to a > block of memory that wasn't allocated using my malloc function. My > program runs without a hitch if I comment out the PQconnectdb function > calls. I've experienced an openSSL, libpq + other library using SSL bug recently. Do you get the same crash is you explicitly disable SSL in the connection string? sslmode=disable. Thanks Russell