Re: Error I don't understand, losing synch with server

>> Every once in a while I log this error executing a query:
>> message contents do not agree with length in message type "D"
>> lost synchronization with server: got message type "O", length 1398030676
> 
> This means either that libpq got a corrupt message from the server, or
> that libpq itself contains a bug in message parsing.  Given that no one
> else has reported similar problems, the idea that your app is somehow
> clobbering the libpq message buffer (and thus corrupting the message "in
> transit") has to be taken seriously.
> 
> You mention pooling so I suppose this is a multi-threaded application
> ... are you being careful not to let any two threads try to use the same
> libpq PGconn at the same time?  libpq itself does not contain any
> locking that would make that safe, you need to provide the locking
> yourself.

Uhhhmmm, I built without --enable-thread-safety??? I have a process I follow
when building, but pg_config is telling me that I didn't use my standard
options. I'm assuming this could cause all sorts of threading kinkiness...


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