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To: "Steven M. Wheeler" <swheeler@sabre.com>
cc: pgsql-interfaces@hub.org
Subject: Perl5 selftest failure (was Re: Questions about vacuum analyze)
In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 01 Oct 1999 17:24:38 -0500
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Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 11:08:36 -0400
Message-ID: <1488.938876916@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

"Steven M. Wheeler" <swheeler@sabre.com> writes:
> Just wanted to let you know that, for perl5, when I tried to run "make
> test" after having built the perl kit, I get the following:

> cobra:/opt/pgsql/postgresql-6.5.2/src/interfaces/perl5 $make test
> PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl -Iblib/arch -Iblib/lib
> -I/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux -I/usr/lib/perl5 test.pl
> Pg::conndefaults ........ ok
> Pg::connectdb ........... ok
> $conn->exec ............. ok
> $conn->errorMessage ..... ok
> pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly.
>         This probably means the backend terminated abnormally
>         before or while processing the request.
> make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255

I can't duplicate this here --- does anyone else see it?

Can you provide a debugger backtrace from the crashed backend?
Is there anything in the postmaster log file?  Which perl release
do you have?

			regards, tom lane