| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Piotr Stefaniak <postgres(at)piotr-stefaniak(dot)me>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, joerg(at)NetBSD(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: NULL passed as an argument to memcmp() in parse_func.c |
| Date: | 2015-07-01 20:23:24 |
| Message-ID: | 11313.1435782204@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2015-07-01 10:51:49 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The problem is that there are multiple risks to manage here. If I were to
>> back-patch that patch, it would actively break any third-party extensions
>> that might be using the formerly-considered-valid technique of passing a
>> NULL array pointer to these lookup functions. We don't like breaking
>> things in minor releases; that discourages people from updating to new
>> minor releases.
> Yep, let's just fix it in master (and potentially 9.5, I don't care).
It's in the 9.5 branch already.
regards, tom lane
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