Re: PRNG not seeded => Seg.Fault - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: PRNG not seeded => Seg.Fault
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Msg-id 17707.1005444659@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to PRNG not seeded => Seg.Fault  (Stephen Pillinger <S.M.Pillinger@cs.bham.ac.uk>)
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Stephen Pillinger <S.M.Pillinger@cs.bham.ac.uk> writes:
>    Attempting to connect via an SSL aware psql client machine that doesn't
>    have a PRNG seed causes the backend to generate a Segmentation Fault.

Well, removing all hope of reporting SSL-generated errors doesn't seem
like a good solution ;-) ... but evidently we need to guard against SSL
returning a NULL instead of an error string.  Fix committed.  Thanks
for the report!

            regards, tom lane

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