Re: BUG: pgIndex.cpp

From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: P3 Consulting <p3c(at)p3-consulting(dot)net>, pgadmin-hackers <pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG: pgIndex.cpp
Date: 2005-01-12 09:27:16
Message-ID: 41E4ED74.3060409@pse-consulting.de
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Dave Page wrote:

> Did you get a chance to look at this? It seems to me that the quick and
> dirty solution is to wrap the index->iSetxxx calls in an 'if (index)',
> however I'm not entirely convinced that is safe given that it's possible
> to return a null index pointer to the caller (which without significant
> trawling through code I may not find all instances of).

I don't see the point catching this beyond an assert. A sane pgsql will
never return contype != p, u, or NULL unless system tables are corrupted.

Regards,
Andreas

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