| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andreas Seltenreich <seltenreich(at)gmx(dot)de>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [sqlsmith] Crash on GUC serialization |
| Date: | 2016-11-20 02:01:23 |
| Message-ID: | 13877.1479607283@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Thanks for the report! Looks like the serialization code has overlooked
>> the fact that string-valued GUCs can be NULL. Surprising we didn't
>> find that before ...
> Why do we allow this, anyway?
I think it simplifies some initialization cases. Not sure how hard
it would be to remove that. But this isn't the first such bug ...
regards, tom lane
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