Amit Langote escribió: > The segfault in question happens at line 1141: > > off = att_align_pointer(off, thisatt->attalign, -1, tp + off); > > char *tp; /* ptr to tuple data */ > long off; /* offset in tuple data */ > > Disassembling seems to suggest (tp + off) is the faulting address. > Apparently, the segfault happens when 5th text column is being > extracted from a tuple (char(n), char(n), int4, char(n), text, ...). > Since, tp is fixed for the whole duration of loop and only off is > subject to change over iterations, it may have happened due to wrong > offset in this iteration. > > Has anything of this kind been encountered/reported before?
Yes, I vaguely recall I have seen this in cases where tuples contain corrupt data. I think you just need the length word of the fourth datum to be wrong. -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers