repalloc bug

Your name: Giacomo Cariello
Your email address: jwk@bug.it

System Configuration
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Architecture (example: Intel Pentium)         : CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu",
CPU=athlon-xp

Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF)  : Gentoo Linux 1.4 (kernel
version 2.4.20, ELF, glibc 2.3.2)

PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-7.3.4):   PostgreSQL-7.3.4

Compiler used (example:  gcc 2.95.2)          :  from gcc -v: gcc version
3.2.3 20030422 (Gentoo Linux 1.4 3.2.3-r2, propolice)


Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
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Using repalloc in some functions in a shared library I load, the effect is
not the desidered one: the allocated area gets overwritten and causes
segfault once the function returns or calls SPI_finish()




Please describe a way to repeat the problem.   Please try to provide a
concise reproducible example, if at all possible:
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hrm...I noticed some memory areas palloc'ed during a SRF initialization get
overwritten. Also backend tends to crash randomly.
As of now I fixed using palloc/memcpy variant to achieve the same result.




If you know how this problem might be fixed, list the solution below:
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no clue.



Giacomo Cariello, jwk@bug.it
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