Re: Should this scare me? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Should this scare me?
Date
Msg-id 16960.1045713586@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Should this scare me?  ("Ian Harding" <ianh@tpchd.org>)
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"Ian Harding" <ianh@tpchd.org> writes:
> psql in free(): warning: modified (chunk-) pointer.
> I am used to psql dumping core from time to time, although since upgrading to 7.3.1 it has not happened.
> Then this.  Is it anything to fear?

It sure sounds like free() has detected something clobbering memory it
shouldn't --- at a guess, something overrunning a malloc'd buffer by a
few bytes.  I'd recommend trying to trace the cause if you can.  Is it
readily reproducible?

            regards, tom lane

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