* Kristofer Munn <kmunn@munn.com> [001005 22:41] wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > SIGSEGV, ie, bad pointer dereference. There should be a core dump
> > file --- can you provide a stack backtrace from it?
>
> I can try:
>
> # gdb bin/postgres core
> GNU gdb 4.17.0.11 with Linux support
> (gdb)
>
> Did I do that right?
Half-way. :)
You need to do a 'up' to get out of strcpy, then do a 'list', then
use the 'print' command to print out any nearby variables like so:
print foo
you may also want to try 'print *foo'
best of luck,
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