| From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk (Oliver Elphick) |
| Cc: | hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, pgsql-questions(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Cure for segmentation fault in libpq |
| Date: | 1998-03-26 23:45:23 |
| Message-ID: | 199803262345.SAA08167@candle.pha.pa.us |
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>
> I have been troubled by a segmentation fault when reloading from a dumpall.
> This has been happening when a second \connect is encountered.
>
> The faulty code was in fe-connect.c, where the memory for the user password
> was freed, but the pointer itself was not set to NULL. Later, the memory was
> reused and the password appeared not to be empty, so that an attempt was
> made to reference it.
Applied to source tree.
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