Quoting Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
   mydb=> insert into test values(11);
   *** buffer overflow detected ***: psql terminated

You seem to have a rather badly broken build there :-(.  What's the
platform exactly, and what compiler did you use?  Can you rebuild
with debug support enabled so you can get a stack trace that's
actually useful?

If it just started happening, I'd speculate about a corrupt executable
file for psql or libpq.  I doubt it's got anything to do with the server
side.

But this doesn't explain the data I posted previously:

 psql host   postgres host   result
 --------------------------------------
 X           X               crash
 X           Y               OK
 Y           X               crash
 Y           Y               OK

Nodes X and Y are in a cluster and have the same software installed
(OS, Postgres, application).

- If the problem is with our build of psql or postgres, then I'd
expect crashes in all four cases.

- If we have a good build but a corrupt psql executable, then I'd
expect the crash to correlate with the psql host.

- If we have a corrupt postgres executable or a corrupt database then
I'd expect the crash to correlate with the postgres host, which is
what I observed. The disk checking we've done (fsck, badblocks)
indicates that the database is OK. I'm in the process of checking the
disks on X and Y with the database executables.

Jack




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