Re: Add RESPECT/IGNORE NULLS and FROM FIRST/LAST options - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tatsuo Ishii
Subject Re: Add RESPECT/IGNORE NULLS and FROM FIRST/LAST options
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Msg-id 20251007.112832.740065769089328041.ishii@postgresql.org
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In response to Re: Add RESPECT/IGNORE NULLS and FROM FIRST/LAST options  (Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>)
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>> Thank you for the report!
>> 
>>> Coverity is not very happy with this patch.
>>> It's complaining that the result of window_gettupleslot
>>> is not checked, which seems valid:
>>> 
>>> 1503                 {
>>> 1504                     if (fetch_tuple)
>>>>>>     CID 1666587:         Error handling issues  (CHECKED_RETURN)
>>>>>>     Calling "window_gettupleslot" without checking return value (as is done elsewhere 8 out of 9 times).
>>> 1505                         window_gettupleslot(winobj, pos, slot);
>>> 1506                     if (!are_peers(winstate, slot, winstate->ss.ss_ScanTupleSlot))
>>> 1507                         return -1;
>> 
>> Yes, I forgot to check the return value of window_gettupleslot.
>> 
>>> and also that WinGetFuncArgInPartition is dereferencing
>>> a possibly-null "isout" pointer at several places, including
>>> 
>>>>>>     Dereferencing null pointer "isout".
>>> 3806                     if (*isout)        /* out of partition? */
>>> 
>>>>>>     Dereferencing null pointer "isout".
>>> 3817         if (!*isout && set_mark)
>>> 3818             WinSetMarkPosition(winobj, abs_pos);
>>> 
>>>>>>     Dereferencing null pointer "isout".
>>> 3817         if (!*isout && set_mark)
>>> 3818             WinSetMarkPosition(winobj, abs_pos);
>>> 
>>> The latter complaints seem to be because some places in
>>> WinGetFuncArgInPartition check for nullness of that pointer
>>> and some do not.  That looks like at least a latent bug
>>> to me.
>> 
>> Agreed.
>> 
>> Attached is a patch to fix the issue.
> 
> Please disregard the v1 patch. It includes a bug: If
> WinGetFuncArgInPartition() is called with set_mark == true and isout
> == NULL, WinSetMarkPosition() is not called by
> WinGetFuncArgInPartition().
> 
> I will post v2 patch.

Attached is the v2 patch.

Best regards,
--
Tatsuo Ishii
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