Re: TupleDescAttr bounds checks - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: TupleDescAttr bounds checks
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Msg-id CA+TgmoYpi48MV1RoqkLpwSg5b-ySYJ6Vx5yXjOS3hS6oJWwtzw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: TupleDescAttr bounds checks  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 12:46 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I did see that, but it read to me that you were just guessing at that
> time.  This morning I put Asserts into indexcmds.c that verified that
> it was trying to access the tupledesc for attno zero, and that proves
> there is a bug there.  It also seems like a plausible explanation for
> why only one machine has exhibited the failure.  (Your 0002 is a
> better version of said Asserts.)

Ah, OK. Yeah, I wasn't completely sure at the time whether there was
some kind of TupleDesc out there that would allow zero or negative
indexes safely. It seems like there is not.

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Robert Haas
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