Re: Swap_inner_handle

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 03:59:56PM +0200, Henri Asseily wrote:
> Some more comments from the user (he should probably modernize his whole stack but that's not the point here :)):

What perl and DBI versions?

> From our testing, somewhere $dbh gets overrun by something but we
> could not tell if it was in DBI/DBD::Pg/Apache::DBI or DBIx::HA. What
> we saw was that on attempt #1 and #2, it wouldn't fail but on attempt
> #3 $dbh was not pointing to a database handle anymore but a scalar
> reference to the letter 'n'. Very odd and something we couldn't track
> down who was stomping on $dbh.

> Assertion error from swap_inner_handle:
> 
> 'PERL_BACKTRACE' => '** Assertion i == (((((SV *) (name_av))->sv_flags & 0x00800000)) ? Perl_mg_size(my_perl, (SV *) name_av) : ((XPVAV*) (name_av)->sv_any)->xav_fill)+1 failed: file "DBI.xs", line 2001

That doesn't ring any bells.

Maybe try a perl built with -DDEBUGGING enabled.

If that doesn't shed any useful light, and you've a small test case,
then try using valgrind with a perl built with -DPURIFY.

Good luck!

Tim.