Re: Default Partition for Range

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Beena Emerson <memissemerson(at)gmail(dot)com>, Rafia Sabih <rafia(dot)sabih(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jeevan Ladhe <jeevan(dot)ladhe(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Default Partition for Range
Date: 2017-06-21 14:38:00
Message-ID: CA+Tgmoa7EMBgWWyJVN1KRZJdeq2zJVd6+X_yRJn9MMLUQGV+rQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> For the default partition we are only setting bound->content[0] to
> default, but content for others key
> attributes are not initialized. But later in the code, if the content
> of the first key is RANGE_DATUM_DEFAULT then it should not access the
> next content, but I see there are some exceptions. Which can access
> uninitialized value?

I think somebody should do some testing of the existing code with
valgrind. And then apply the list-partitioning patch and this patch,
and do some more testing with valgrind. It seems to be really easy to
miss these uninitialized access problems during code review.

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

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