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---- Gregory Marton <gremio@csail.mit.edu> wrote: 
> Hi folks,
> 
> We are working with dbi postgres and suspect that we may have made a 
> mistake while modifying it that causes guile occasionally to die with
>     Guile: error during GC.

> Is it possible to invoke garbage collection from within Scheme so we can 
> more easily write a test case to isolate the problem?

Sure.  Just call (gc) whereever you want.

-Dale