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Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 11:11:45 +0200
From: Christoph Haller <ch@rodos.fzk.de>
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To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Cc: frankie@ucr.com.hk
Subject: Re: Segmentation Fault
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 >
 > I want to ask what does the error message mean by
 > "0x40023abb in resetPQExpBuffer () from /usr/local/pgsql/lib/libpq.so.3"?
 > I got this message using GDB to trace the program.
 > (Segmentation fault occurswhen run the program directly.)
 >
 > I reviewed the program many times, and found this is only to happen when
 > I call the `ctime()'  or `time()' in a program function.
 >
 > code fragment FYI
 > --8<------------------------
 > // `res = PQexec(conn, sql)' here..
 > ...
 > ...
 >   }
 >   else if (!strcmp(PQfname(res, i), SYNCTIME_FIELD_NAME))
 >   {
 > //   puts("7");
 >    //char chP[30];
 >    printf("timer=%ld\n", time(timer)); // <====== without this line, the
 > program works
 > //   printf("%s", ctime(time(NULL)));
 > //   printf("%s", asctime(localtime(&timer)));
 >    sprintf(tmp, "'1999-12-11 09:50:58'::timestamp, ");

I would like to see the declaration of the "timer" variable.
Is it "time_t"? Then you should code "&timer" as in localtime(&timer).
Is it "time_t *"? Then, did you alloc'd memory?
Regards, Christoph