From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
>From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 5:51 PMTo: Lars Aksel Opsahl <Lars.Opsahl@nibio.no>Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>; Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>; pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org>Subject: Re: free(): invalid pointer , when to dumping data to a new server
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>Lars Aksel Opsahl <Lars.Opsahl@nibio.no> writes:
>> (gdb) bt
>> #0 0x00007fa9c241e70f in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6
>> #1 0x00007fa9c2408b25 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6
>> #2 0x00007fa9c2461897 in __libc_message () from /lib64/libc.so.6
>> #3 0x00007fa9c2467fdc in malloc_printerr () from /lib64/libc.so.6
>> #4 0x00007fa9c24698dc in _int_free () from /lib64/libc.so.6
>> #5 0x00007f992fe099f9 in osgeo::proj::common::UnitOfMeasure::~UnitOfMeasure() () from /lib64/libproj.so.15
>> #6 0x00007fa9c2420e9c in __run_exit_handlers () from /lib64/libc.so.6
>> #7 0x00007fa9c2420fd0 in exit () from /lib64/libc.so.6
>> #8 0x000000000075beb0 in proc_exit (code=code@entry=0) at ipc.c:152
>> #9 0x000000000077fd21 in PostgresMain (argc=<optimized out>, argv=argv@entry=0x182b6d8, dbname=<optimized out>, username=<optimized out>) at postgres.c:4455
>> #10 0x00000000007085a1 in BackendRun (port=0x1819b90, port=0x1819b90) at postmaster.c:4448
>> #11 BackendStartup (port=0x1819b90) at postmaster.c:4139
>> #12 ServerLoop () at postmaster.c:1704
>> #13 0x00000000007094d0 in PostmasterMain (argc=argc@entry=3, argv=argv@entry=0x17e7800) at postmaster.c:1377
>> #14 0x0000000000482c7e in main (argc=3, argv=0x17e7800) at main.c:228
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>OK, I'd say that definitely puts the bug outside of core Postgres.
>It looks like proj has installed an atexit() handler that is trying
>to free something that was already freed. This might be proj's
>fault directly, or perhaps a caller did something wrong (a likely
>bet, perhaps, is using palloc for something that proj expects to
>survive till program exit).
>
>Probably the next step is to take this to the postgis support lists
>and see what they think about it.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
Hi
Thanks a lot for your help I will take it to the Postgis lists.
Lars