[GENERAL] Possible bug in PostgreSQL 8.3beta4 (postgres process segfaults)

2007-12-12 Thread Lawrence Oluyede
While developing a Python program I encountered a situation that makes on of the PostgreSQL 8.3b4's processes crash badly with a segfault. Let me explain. After enabling "debug5" as log level I was able to locate and reproduce the exact sequence of SQL queries made against my test database and cra

Re: [GENERAL] Possible bug in PostgreSQL 8.3beta4 (postgres process segfaults)

2007-12-12 Thread Lawrence Oluyede
Here it is: postgres$ gdb /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres core.1600 (gdb) bt #0 0x082c101c in pfree (pointer=0x8472f00) at mcxt.c:591 #1 0xb7e46513 in xmlCleanupCharEncodingHandlers () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 #2 0xb7e4f091 in xmlCleanupParser () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 #3 0x082940e4 in xpa

Re: [GENERAL] Possible bug in PostgreSQL 8.3beta4 (postgres process segfaults)

2007-12-12 Thread Lawrence Oluyede
On Dec 12, 2007 1:29 PM, Pavel Stehule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cannot repeat this bug on my test date. Can you send some small set > that reproduce the bug? I dumped the entire table here: http://www.oluyede.org/temp/instrument.txt Let me know if you need anything else -- Lawrence, oluy

Re: [GENERAL] Possible bug in PostgreSQL 8.3beta4 (postgres process segfaults)

2008-01-27 Thread Lawrence Oluyede
> I think we finally found the problem. Please see if things are more > stable with 8.3RC1 plus this patch: > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2008-01/msg00190.php Sorry for being so late. I'm currently using PostgreSQL RC2 at work and I notice no crashes. Thanks! -- Lawrence,

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.3 XML parser seems not to recognize the DOCTYPE element in XML files

2008-02-07 Thread Lawrence Oluyede
As specified in the W3C Recommendation for XML the DOCTYPE element is perfectly valid in a document. I have a bunch of XML files generated by the boost library which contains a doctype like this: which lies within the bound of the recommendation (http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-prolog-dtd): "Note