Re: describe objects, as in pg_depend - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: describe objects, as in pg_depend
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Msg-id 1290100722-sup-6099@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: describe objects, as in pg_depend  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: describe objects, as in pg_depend
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Thanks for the comments.  Updated patch attached.

In the process of looking it over again, I noticed that in an
assert-enabled build, it's trivial to crash the server with this
function: just pass a nonzero subobjid with an object class that doesn't
take one.  This could be fixed easily by turning the Asserts into
elog(ERROR).

Another problem with this function is that a lot of checks that
currently raise errors with elog(ERROR) are now user-facing.  On this
issue one possible answer would be to do nothing; another would be to go
over all those calls and turn them into full-fledged ereports.

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
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