Re: [GENERAL] help with error message from perl Pg

["A.M." <agentm(at)themactionfaction(dot)com>]

On Tue, June 20, 2006 10:44 am, Tom Lane wrote:
> 78 would be ASCII 'N', but that's not really significant AFAICS.  The
> problem here is that the frontend and backend have lost sync: the server is
> expecting to find a message beginning at a place in the frontend data
> stream that evidently isn't the start of a message.  In short, the
> frontend has sent corrupted data of some sort.
>
> Martijn's theory of inadequately locked threaded access is certainly one
> likely way this can happen, but it's not the only one.  It might be useful
> for you to capture the data stream (with something like tcpdump) and try
> to get more information about the nature of the corruption. Frequently, if
> you can identify "ah-hah, THIS data is being inserted into the middle of
> THAT" or whatever, the cause becomes obvious.
>
>
> Also, before you spend too much time on this, make sure your DBI and
> DBD::Pg modules are up-to-date.  If it's a bug in that level, it'd be
> foolish to waste much of your own time chasing it.

If you look at his example code, he's not even using DBI- he's using Pg.pm
which is for all practical purposes deprecated and supplanted by DBD::Pg.