Re: jsonb failed assertions

On 05/28/2014 04:13 AM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 4:53 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
> <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> wrote:
>> Hmm. The patch looks correct as far as it goes. But that function is still a
>> bit funny. When it compares two identical arrays (or objects), and reaches
>> the WJB_END_ARRAY token, it will still fall into the code that checks what
>> the va and vb types are, and compares the last scalar values in that array
>> again. That's wrong, and will fail if the compiler decides to clobber the
>> local "va" or "vb" variables between iterations of the do-while loop,
>> because JsonbIteratorNext() does not set the value when returning
>> WJB_END_ARRAY.
>
> That's an obsolete assumption that once actually applied during development.
>
> Attached revision also adds handling for that case.

Thanks, applied.

- Heikki