Re: BUG #5669: server process was terminated by exception 0xC0000005 - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: BUG #5669: server process was terminated by exception 0xC0000005
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Msg-id 28562.1285178062@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: BUG #5669: server process was terminated by exception 0xC0000005  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: BUG #5669: server process was terminated by exception 0xC0000005  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mié sep 22 13:36:18 -0400 2010:
>> Well, the more general point is what should "SHOW session_authorization"
>> show in an autovacuum process?  The fact that Andrew wasn't
>> intentionally doing that doesn't mean that someone else might not try
>> it.  I think we can either decide it should be an obviously-illegal
>> value, or try to make it return the name of the cluster-creating
>> superuser.  The latter seems like more work than it's worth though.

> +1 for the illegal value.

OK.  I just dug through all the other show-hook functions and confirmed
that show_session_authorization is the only one that will dump core if
its variable is NULL, so it looks like we have just one case to fix.
Will get on it once I get my repo back together ...

            regards, tom lane

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