Re: postgresql-7.4RC1 - Memory fault(coredump) on HP-UX - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

"Verbus Counts" <verbus@sonicisp.net> writes:
>> Can you show us the stack trace ?

> Here is:

Hm, getaddrinfo() is crashing?

Does HPUX 11 have more fields in "struct addrinfo" than are initialized in
lines 189-196 of src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c, viz
hints.ai_flags = AI_PASSIVE;hints.ai_family = PF_UNSPEC;hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_DGRAM;hints.ai_protocol =
0;hints.ai_addrlen= 0;hints.ai_addr = NULL;hints.ai_canonname = NULL;hints.ai_next = NULL;
 

If so, perhaps adding "memset(&hints, 0, sizeof(hints));" right before
these lines would improve matters.

Otherwise I think this is probably an HPUX bug.  You might need to get a
more recent version of libc.
        regards, tom lane