Re: BUG: pgIndex.cpp

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Pflug [mailto:pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de]
> Sent: 12 January 2005 09:27
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: P3 Consulting; pgadmin-hackers
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] BUG: pgIndex.cpp
>
> 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.

Very true.

Regards, Dave.