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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [sqlsmith] Crash on GUC serialization
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Msg-id 13877.1479607283@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [sqlsmith] Crash on GUC serialization  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> 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 ...

> Why do we allow this, anyway?

I think it simplifies some initialization cases.  Not sure how hard
it would be to remove that.  But this isn't the first such bug ...
        regards, tom lane

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