pgsql: catcache.c: use C_COLLATION_OID for texteqfast/texthashfast.

From: Jeff Davis <jdavis(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: catcache.c: use C_COLLATION_OID for texteqfast/texthashfast.
Date: 2026-04-22 17:27:41
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catcache.c: use C_COLLATION_OID for texteqfast/texthashfast.

The problem report was about setting GUCs in the startup packet for a
physical replication connection. Setting the GUC required an ACL
check, which performed a lookup on pg_parameter_acl.parname. The
catalog cache was hardwired to use DEFAULT_COLLATION_OID for
texteqfast() and texthashfast(), but the database default collation
was uninitialized because it's a physical walsender and never connects
to a database. In versions 18 and later, this resulted in a NULL
pointer dereference, while in version 17 it resulted in an ERROR.

As the comments stated, using DEFAULT_COLLATION_OID was arbitrary
anyway: if the collation actually mattered, it should have used the
column's actual collation. (In the catalog, some text columns are the
default collation and some are "C".)

Fix by using C_COLLATION_OID, which doesn't require any initialization
and is always available. When any deterministic collation will do,
it's best to consistently use the simplest and fastest one, so this is
a good idea anyway.

Another problem was raised in the thread, which this commit doesn't
fix (see second discussion link).

Reported-by: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/D18AD72A-5004-4EF8-AF80-10732AF677FA@yandex-team.ru
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4524ed61a015d3496fc008644dcb999bb31916a7.camel%40j-davis.com
Backpatch-through: 17

Branch
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REL_17_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/9dda30dd3d4936e3d590fc319b08eaed41f1f748

Modified Files
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src/backend/utils/cache/catcache.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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