psql crashes with snapshot - 2 files [1/1]

[marco atzeri]

On 2/18/2013 8:44 PM, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> * Christopher Faylor (Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:46:43 -0500)
>> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 04:27:17PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>>> I just downloaded the PostgreSQL client tools and noticed that psql
>>> crashes every time. The usual rebase didn't help. I reverted cygwin1.dll
>>> to the latest official version (1.7.17, 2012-10-19) and now psql works
>>> fine.
>>>
>>> What can I do - if anything at all - to debug the issue? Obviously, I
>>> cannot test every single snapshot after October last year and see where
>>> the crash "starts"...
>>
>> It isn't clear why you couldn't do that
>
> There were at around twenty five snapshots since October. To test them
> all would take a long time...
>
> ...but surprisingly already the first post 1.7.17 snapshot from 2012-11-
> 23 exhibits the problem[1].
>
>> but you could at least provide
>> *details* like cygcheck output
>
> see attached file
>
>> and what you mean by "crash".
>
>  From a DOS prompt:
>
>> psql --version
> 1 [main] psql 3196 exception::handle: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
> 626 [main] psql 3196 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to
> psql.exe.stackdump
>
> And from a bash prompt:
>
> $ psql --version
> Segmentation fault
>
>> If there is a stackdump file then posting that would be useful.
>
> Attached
>
> Thorsten
> [1] http://cygwin.org/snapshots/cygwin1-20121123.dll.bz2
>
>

confirmed, I see the same.

strangely I noticed that psql of 9.2.2-1 does not suffer this problem,
and it seems due to cygpq.dll (rebase address ?).
I will investigate later

Marco









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