Re: [HACKERS] Cure for segmentation fault in libpq - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Cure for segmentation fault in libpq
Date
Msg-id 199803262345.SAA08167@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Cure for segmentation fault in libpq  ("Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>)
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>
> I have been troubled by a segmentation fault when reloading from a dumpall.
> This has been happening when a second \connect is encountered.
>
> The faulty code was in fe-connect.c, where the memory for the user password
> was freed, but the pointer itself was not set to NULL.  Later, the memory was
> reused and the password appeared not to be empty, so that an attempt was
> made to reference it.

Applied to source tree.


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