On Sep 3, 2011, at 7:27 PM, Mr. Puneet Kishor wrote:

> I am on Mac OS X Lion with Pg 9.0.x, Perl 5.14.1, and the latest iterations 
> of DBI and DBD::Pg. My code is pretty straightforward
> 
>    my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=macromap;host=localhost;port=5432", 
> 'postgres', 'postgres');
>    my $sth = $dbh->prepare( .. );
>    $sth->execute;
>    while (my (retrieved columns) = $sth->fetchrow_array) {
>        do something with retrieved columns  
>    }
> 
> The code bombs with the message:
> 
> DBD::Pg::st execute failed: server closed the connection unexpectedly
>       This probably means the server terminated abnormally
>       before or while processing the request. at ...

IIRC, I've seen that when the back end had segfaulted. What do you see in your 
PostgreSQL log?

Best,

David

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