The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 1270 Logged by: Peter Davie
Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 7.4.5 Operating system: OSF/1 4.0f Description: stack overflow in thread in fe_getauthname Details: With the THREAD_SAFETY changes, a buffer is defined on the stack as: char pwdbuf[BUFSIZ]; This buffer overflows the stack when used in a thread. As the application creating the thread cannot be modified to increase the stack size, it would probably be prudent to reduce this buffer size (I believe that BUFSIZ is around 8192 bytes on most modern Unix implementations). To rectify this issue (seg faults attempting to connect to the database), I replaced the above declaration with: char pwdbuf[1024]; Obviously, a manifest constant would be better! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
