[postgis-devel] st_intersect crasher

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

David Fuhry wrote:

> Updating geos to SVN HEAD and postgis to 1.4.0rc2 fixed the problem.  I 
> never did get it fully diagnosed.
> 
> Before updating, I rebuilt the old postgis with --enable-debug, and the 
> st_intersection call output (attached) looked as expected - a geos 
> crash, but with nothing unusual-looking before that.
> 
> Strangely, the attached geos_test.c succeeded.  I thought that ldd 
> showed both its binary and the postgres shared object in PKGLIBDIR / 
> $libdir (/usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/lib) linked to the same libgeos and 
> libgeos_c objects, although I could have been wrong about that.
> 
> -Dave

Yeah, the debug log seems to point to somewhere around GEOS so I suspect 
we won't be able to get much further with this one. Let us know if you 
experience any more problems though...


ATB,

Mark.

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