Re: BUG #5418: psql exits after using tab-completion with error message

G'day Craig, thanks for your reply.

On 13/04/2010, at 20:33 , Craig Ringer wrote:

>
>> prices=# \d abapsql(11407) malloc: *** error for object 0xe: pointer being
>> freed was not allocated
>> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>> Abort trap
>
> This could be a bug in psql, a buggy/damaged readline library, etc.
>
> For GUI apps Mac OS X makes a crash record in the system logs. I'm not sure if it does that for command line apps too
-I think it does. Can you check "Console" and see if there are any crash dumps for psql? 

I have checked console, and there are many psql entries - I have attached two as they all appear fairly similar, some
numberschanging in this section : 

Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
  rax: 0x0000000000000000  rbx: 0x0000000000000002  rcx: 0x00007fff5fbff448  rdx: 0x0000000000000000
  rdi: 0x0000000000002efd  rsi: 0x0000000000000006  rbp: 0x00007fff5fbff460  rsp: 0x00007fff5fbff448
   r8: 0x0000000000000e03   r9: 0x0000000000000000  r10: 0x00007fff868cf8ca  r11: 0x0000000000000202
  r12: 0x00000001000d5000  r13: 0x00000001000d2000  r14: 0x0000000000000000  r15: 0x0000000000000003
  rip: 0x00007fff868d3886  rfl: 0x0000000000000202  cr2: 0x0000000100188bd5

The ones that vary most are rdi, rcx, rbp, cr2 and r15.





> If not, to find out what's going on it may be necessary to attach a debugger. This probably isn't installed on your
computer.You would need the Developer Tools (XCode etc), which can be obtained from the Apple web site as a free
download.
>
> I don't have access to Mac OS X 10.6, but maybe someone else here does and can reproduce the issue. Even if they can,
itmight still be helpful to get some additional info on the crash you're having, so it'd be great if you could grab the
developertools and reply once they're installed. See: 

I have the developer tools installed - but I think only because I needed them installed to install something ages ago.



cheers

Ben

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