Re: oldish libpq bug still in RC2 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee> writes:
> It seems that this bug is still lurking in libpq:
> http://search.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-09/msg00703.php

> Is anybody working on it, or should I try something myself, perhaps just
> replacing the lone recv() with pqsecure_read() ?

Go for it.  The difficulty I think is testing that the failure path
actually does the right thing.  Do you have the ability to provoke
the failure on demand?
        regards, tom lane