Re: [BUGS] select cash_out('2'); crashes backend on 7.0.2

Folks, I see we have many problems here:

test=> select textout(2);
pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly.
This probably means the backend terminated abnormally
before or while processing the request.
The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: NOTICE:
Message from PostgreSQL backend:
The Postmaster has informed me that some other backend died
abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.
I have rolled back the current transaction and am going to
terminate your database system connection and exit.
Please reconnect to the database system and repeat your query.
Failed.

and the server log shows:

Reinitializing shared memory and semaphores

Seems like a pretty serious denial of service attack to me. It restarts
all running backends.

I have aligned the error messages, at least.

>
> Hello,
>
> I was just experimenting, trying to see if I could find a function that
> would format a numeric value like 'money' with Postgres 7.0.2. Here's
> what happened:
>
> ######
> cascade=> select cash_out(2);
> pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly.
> This probably means the backend terminated abnormally
> before or while processing the request.
> We have lost the connection to the backend, so further processing is
> impossible. Terminating.
> ######
>
> The same thing happened with Postgres 6.5.3. Here's my full version:
> PostgreSQL 7.0.2 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc 2.96
>
> I'm sure if what I tried is even valid input, but I'm guessing this is
> not a desired result in any case. :)
>
> Thanks for the great software and good luck with this!
>
> A frequent Postgres user,
>
> -mark
>
> personal website } Summersault Website Development
> http://mark.stosberg.com/ { http://www.summersault.com/
>

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