After a few hours of watching strange things happening I finally stumbled on the cause.
Very short summary: the postgres binary needs to be linked to libpthread, as this will ensure a special fork() inside libthr (the FreeBSD libpthread implementation/wrapper) is used which correctly deals with any pthread usage (I am guessing especially statically initialized pthread_X variables in for example libxml2). This can be accomplished by adding "-lpthread" to the LDFLAGS when building either libxml2 or postgresql itself, or by preloading libpthread.so when starting postgresql. Before advocating any particular solution, I'd like to throw this out first and see how strongly people feel about this. Cheers, and thanks to everyone who replied so far Dennis -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
