Re: Possible issue with expanded object infrastructure on Postgres 9.6.1

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Possible issue with expanded object infrastructure on Postgres 9.6.1
Date: 2017-01-20 19:56:47
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYGDR+z64Qx8wGro1SqnWYmQEvu4b_Ga5+ah+XaDmQNLg@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 9:39 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> If I had to bet on the basis of this much info, I would bet that the
> parallel-query infrastructure is dropping the ball somewhere and
> transmitting a corrupted datum that accidentally looks like it is
> an expanded-object reference.

There's code in datumSerialize() that is intended to do the right
thing with expanded-object references. But it could have a bug, of
course. That function gets called from SerializeParamList(), which
might be another place to look for problems if the crash can only be
reproduced when there are statement parameters.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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