On 03/28/2018 03:54 PM, Nicolas Thauvin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A customer sent us a core dump of the crash of the background worker of
> the powa extension, running on 9.6.8 along side with cstore_fdw.
>
> The background worker loops on a plpgsql function, which then execute
> another plpgsql function that issues the query "TRUNCATE
> powa_statements_history_current".
>
> Here is the backtrace :
>
> ...
>
> The core shows that ProcessUtility hook of cstore_fdw produces a
> segfault when trying to copy the relation list of the truncate
> statement plan.
>
> In frame 2:
> (gdb) p *((TruncateStmt *)parseTree)
> $26 = {type = T_TruncateStmt, relations = 0x2f106a8, restart_seqs = 0 '\000', behavior = DROP_RESTRICT}
> (gdb) p *(((TruncateStmt *)parseTree)->relations)
> $27 = {type = 49574520, length = 0, head = 0x0, tail = 0x2faaab8}
>
> With this invalid list, standard_ProcessUtility would not have failed
> but the relation would not have been truncated.
>
> ...
>
> Could you please give me some pointers to further investigate this
> crash?
>
Sounds like a bug in CStoreProcessUtility, which is part of cstore_fdw,
not PostgreSQL. So I guess the right place to report the issue is
https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw
regards
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