On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I wrote:
>> I wonder if the problem is not so much libpqwalreceiver as the
>> walreceiver process.  Maybe an ordinary backend process does some
>> prerequisite initialization that walreceiver is missing.  Hard to
>> guess what, though ... I can't think of anything dlopen() depends on
>> that should be under our control.
>
> Actually, that idea is easily tested: try doing
>        LOAD 'libpqwalreceiver';
> in a regular backend process.

Alanoly, is this something you can try?

> If that still crashes, it might be useful to truss or strace the backend
> while it runs the command, and compare that to the trace of
>        LOAD 'dblink';

And if necessary, this too?

Thanks for your help debugging this....

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Robert Haas
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