Shane Ambler wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Shane Ambler <pgsql@007Marketing.com> writes:
>>> postgres=# \q
>>> psql(24931) malloc: *** error for object 0x180a800: incorrect checksum
>>> for freed object - object was probably modified after being freed, break
>>> at szone_error to debug
>>> psql(24931) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug
>>> Segmentation fault
>>
>> I think we've seen something like this before in connection with
>> readline/libedit follies. Does the crash go away if you invoke
>> psql with "-n" option? If so, exactly which version of readline or
>> libedit are you using?
>
> psql -n stops the error.
>
I just found out the problem.
psql_history - I had tried to copy from a text file earlier that was
utf8 and came up with some errors, I guess these got into the history
file and stuffed it up.
Renamed it so it created a new one and all is fine now.
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Shane Ambler
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