> IBM is trying to find the answer to this but I thought I would throw > this out here to see if anyone can help me. I am compiling a user > defined type on AIX and it fails when I try to use it. The type is > chkpass and it is in the contrib directory. It fails with a core dump > at line 88 in chkpass.c. The line reads as follows. > > result = (chkpass *) palloc(sizeof(chkpass)); > > The top of the backtrace looks like this. > > #0 0x0 in ?? () from (unknown load module) > #1 0xd1087a60 in chkpass_in (fcinfo=0x0) at chkpass.c:88 > #2 0x10045cf4 in or_clause (clause=0x0) at clauses.c:211 > #3 0x10075d68 in int82ge (fcinfo=0x1015cfc8) at int8.c:343 > #4 0x1005909c in _readArrayRef () at readfuncs.c:924 > #5 0x10059b68 in _readSeqScan () at readfuncs.c:600 > > It looks like the dynamically loaded object (chkpass.so) > can't determine > the address of palloc() from the parent. I assume I need a > flag for the > compile either on the main build to export the addresses or > on the build > of chkpass to tell it where to look up the addresses. Anyone been > through this that might be able to shed some light? Tell me your link line, OS and compiler version. And have you forgotten to include -bI:postgres.imp ? In general it is imho a good idea to copy the appropriate compile and link flags from the regression test, that compiles shared libs in .../contrib. Andreas ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster