When running queries that make use of both madlib cosine_similarity and postgis ST_Intersects, with often get segmentation faults. It doesn't happen 100% of the time - perhaps it needs multiple queries running in parallel to make the segfault happen, or it might be some other random thing that triggers it.
The stack trace is: Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. #0 0x000056464a888e64 in pfree () (gdb) (gdb) bt #0 0x000056464a888e64 in pfree () #1 0x00007f3ddf33ae4d in madlib::dbconnector::postgres::Allocator::free<(madlib::dbal::MemoryContext)0> (inPtr=inPtr@entry=0x56464b701ae0, this=<optimized out>) at /tmp/tmpbs9UjC/madlib-1.11.0/src/ports/postgres/dbconnector/Allocator_impl.hpp:189 #2 0x00007f3ddf33b16d in operator delete (ptr=0x56464b701ae0) at /tmp/tmpbs9UjC/madlib-1.11.0/src/ports/postgres/dbconnector/NewDelete.cpp:62 #3 0x00007f3ddf04c718 in deallocate (this=0x56464b6fa828, __p=<optimized out>) at /usr/include/c++/4.9/ext/new_allocator.h:110 #4 deallocate (__a=..., __n=1, __p=<optimized out>) at /usr/include/c++/4.9/ext/alloc_traits.h:185 #5 _M_put_node (this=0x56464b6fa828, __p=<optimized out>) at /usr/include/c++/4.9/bits/stl_tree.h:389 #6 _M_destroy_node (this=0x56464b6fa828, __p=<optimized out>) at /usr/include/c++/4.9/bits/stl_tree.h:410 #7 std::_Rb_tree<std::string, std::string, std::_Identity<std::string>, std::less<std::string>, std::allocator<std::string> >::_M_erase (this=this@entry=0x56464b6fa828, __x=<optimized out>) at /usr/include/c++/4.9/bits/stl_tree.h:1247 #8 0x00007f3ddf04c6f4 in std::_Rb_tree<std::string, std::string, std::_Identity<std::string>, std::less<std::string>, std::allocator<std::string> >::_M_erase (this=0x56464b6fa828, __x=0x56464b701a80) at /usr/include/c++/4.9/bits/stl_tree.h:1245 #9 0x00007f3ddc714a99 in osgDB::Registry::~Registry() () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libosgDB.so.100 #10 0x00007f3ddc714d99 in osgDB::Registry::~Registry() () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libosgDB.so.100 #11 0x00007f3e27b6ab29 in __run_exit_handlers (status=0, listp=0x7f3e27ed85a8 <__exit_funcs>, run_list_atexit=run_list_atexit@entry=true) at exit.c:82 #12 0x00007f3e27b6ab75 in __GI_exit (status=<optimized out>) at exit.c:104 #13 0x000056464a748504 in proc_exit () #14 0x000056464a768c63 in PostgresMain () #15 0x000056464a501001 in ?? () #16 0x000056464a70c9d1 in PostmasterMain () #17 0x000056464a502187 in main () osgDB::Registry is part of the open scene graph library (libosgDB.so.100 in the stack trace), which is used by postgis due to its dependency on SFCGAL. I can see in madlib's NewDelete.cpp the comment: * We override the C++ global memory allocation and deallocation functions. We * map them to ultimately use the PostgreSQL memory routines to protect against * memory leaks. I guess somehow the memory management in open scene graph interacts badly with these overrides? A colleague is looking into using a more recent version of postgis, which may make the problem go away, though we are already using madlib 1.11 and postgis 2.3.3+dfsg-1.pgdg80+1, which are pretty recent. It's also possible that the conflict only happens when using the Debian/Ubuntu postgis binaries, perhaps installing postgis using pgxn or even compiling from source would resolve the issue. Still, it seems a bit strange that a destructor in open scene graph is being caused to segfault by a custom override of memory deallocation in madlib? -- James