On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Andreas Seltenreich <seltenre...@gmx.de> writes: >> sqlsmith just made a GUC that tricks the serialization code into >> dereferencing a nullpointer. Here's a recipe: > > Thanks for the report! Looks like the serialization code has overlooked > the fact that string-valued GUCs can be NULL. Surprising we didn't > find that before ...
I had no idea that was possible. I think if we'd had a regression test that set a GUC to such a value, I would have caught this in the raft of bug fixes I submitted around December of last year, so maybe we should add one. Why do we allow this, anyway? -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
