Re: BUG #3902: Segmentation faults using GSSAPI authentication

["Peter Koczan" <pjkoczan(at)gmail(dot)com>]

> Hmm, crash inside getenv??  That's weird, that suggests something has
> clobbered the environment-strings data structure.
>
> [ pokes around in code... ]  And behold, here's a smoking gun:
> pg_GSS_recvauth() is doing a putenv() with a string that it got from
> palloc().  The active context at this point is PostmasterContext,
> which *is* going to go away soon, leaving a gaping hole in the environ
> list.
>
> I still couldn't reproduce a crash with that knowledge, but I bet that
> if you apply the attached patch, things will get better.

The patch worked like a charm. Thanks, Tom.

Peter