Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Postgres 8.2.4 Segmentation Fault on Mac OS X

I've been having an annoying segmentation fault with the recent install of PostgreSQL on Mac OS X. This happens whenever I quit psql after changing to a different database.

psql(336) malloc: *** error for object 0x1811000: incorrect checksum for freed object - object was probably modified after being freed, break at szone_error to debug
psql(336) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug
Segmentation fault


Looks like others have run into this as well:
http://www.entropy.ch/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=10266
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-11/msg00331.php

Apparently it has something to do with readline libraries.... not sure exactly what, though. It's not a deal-breaker or anything, just annoying.

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