Re: BUG #5669: server process was terminated by exception 0xC0000005

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mi sep 22 13:36:18 -0400 2010:
>> Well, the more general point is what should "SHOW session_authorization"
>> show in an autovacuum process? The fact that Andrew wasn't
>> intentionally doing that doesn't mean that someone else might not try
>> it. I think we can either decide it should be an obviously-illegal
>> value, or try to make it return the name of the cluster-creating
>> superuser. The latter seems like more work than it's worth though.

> +1 for the illegal value.

OK. I just dug through all the other show-hook functions and confirmed
that show_session_authorization is the only one that will dump core if
its variable is NULL, so it looks like we have just one case to fix.
Will get on it once I get my repo back together ...

regards, tom lane