From: | Alexis Wilke <alexis_wilke(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | HUGE BUG - Please fix!!! |
Date: | 2001-03-28 10:28:45 |
Message-ID: | 20010328102845.27416.qmail@web1105.mail.yahoo.com |
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Hi guys,
I don't want to do a patch for a one character error. Yet, that's a HUGE
error and it really needs to be fixed.
Once you have a pg_database file which is over 1 page, it CRASHES. That's
what it did on me. Yes! I have many databases or rather, I often destroy
my databases to regenerate them from scratch (that's for me the easiest
way to do it). Because of that, the pg_database is now two pages.
The utils/misc/database.c has a function called GetRawDatabaseInfo()
which reads that file "on its own". There is a HUGE bug in there, and
it may not always crash a system, but it really needs to be fixed.
At line #183, you have a for() loop which looks like this (since at
least V6.5.0 and still present in V7.0.3):
for (i = 0; i <= max; i++)
All the other such loops start with an index of 1, not zero. And
therefore you want the <=. In this special case loop (or are all
the others special cases?!?) you need to use the following:
for(i = 0; i < max; i++)
Please, I know it's easier when you get a patch, but FIX IT. It's
not fun to try to access your database and have the backend crash
because of such a tiny bug!
Thank you for all your work.
Alexis Wilke
Director
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