Re: "incomplete startup packet" on SGI

David Rysdam wrote:

> Tom Lane wrote:
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>> David Rysdam <drysdam@ll.mit.edu> writes:
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>>> Just finished building and installing on *Sun* (also
>>> "--without-readline", not that I think that could be the issue):
>>> Works fine.  So it's something to do with the SGI build in particular.
>>>
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>>
>> More likely it's something to do with weird behavior of the SGI kernel's
>> TCP stack.  I did a little googling for "transport endpoint is not
>> connected" without turning up anything obviously related, but that or
>> ENOTCONN is probably what you need to search on.
>>
>>             regards, tom lane
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> It's acting like a race condition or pointer problem.  When I add
> random debug printfs/PQflushs to libpq it sometimes works.
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Not a race condition: No threads
Not a memory leak: Electric fence says nothing.  And it works when
electric fence is running, whereas a binary that uses the same libpq
without linking efence does not work.