I have been troubled by a segmentation fault when reloading from a dumpall.
This has been happening when a second \connect is encountered.
The faulty code was in fe-connect.c, where the memory for the user password
was freed, but the pointer itself was not set to NULL. Later, the memory was
reused and the password appeared not to be empty, so that an attempt was
made to reference it.
Here is the patch:
diff -c postgresql-6.3.1{.orig,}/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c
*** postgresql-6.3.1.orig/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c Thu Feb 26
04:44:59 1998
--- postgresql-6.3.1/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c Thu Mar 26 18:45:23
1998
***************
*** 667,672 ****
--- 667,673 ----
if (conn->pgpass != NULL)
{
free(conn->pgpass);
+ conn->pgpass = NULL;
}
return CONNECTION_OK;
--
Oliver Elphick Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver
PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1
