> Hmm, crash inside getenv?? That's weird, that suggests something has
> clobbered the environment-strings data structure.
>
> [ pokes around in code... ] And behold, here's a smoking gun:
> pg_GSS_recvauth() is doing a putenv() with a string that it got from
> palloc(). The active context at this point is PostmasterContext,
> which *is* going to go away soon, leaving a gaping hole in the environ
> list.
>
> I still couldn't reproduce a crash with that knowledge, but I bet that
> if you apply the attached patch, things will get better.
The patch worked like a charm. Thanks, Tom.
Peter
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