Re: empty array case in plperl_ref_from_pg_array not handled correctly - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 08 Mar 2016, at 10:11, Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 11:32 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:

Hi,

Per the new valgrind animal we get:

http://pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=skink&dt=2016-03-08%2004%3A22%3A00
2016-03-08 05:56:05.566 UTC [56de6971.723:5] LOG:  statement: select plperl_sum_array('{}');
==1827== Invalid write of size 4
==1827==    at 0x14E35DD1: plperl_ref_from_pg_array (plperl.c:1459)

[ I think you may have meant to CC me not Alexey K. I'm probably the person responsible :D. ]

Indeed, I think the simplest fix is to make plperl_ref_from_pg_array() return an "empty" array in that case. The attached fixes the valgrind warning for me. (cassert enabled build on master).