Use of uninitialized variables in ExecFindPartition() for parentpartition without leaves (HEAD only) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Hi all,

Since commit 4e5fe9ad (committer Robert Haas and author Amit Langote),
coverity has been complaining that the new code of ExecFindPartition()
may use a set of values and isnull values which never get initialized.
This is a state which can be easily reached with the following SQLs of
a parent partition with no children:
create table parent_tab (a int) partition by list ((a+0));
insert into parent_tab values (1);

The mistake is visibly that FormPartitionKeyDatum() should be called
even for a root partition, initializing the fields of isnull and
values on the way. That's actually what happens in execMain.c's
ExecFindPartition() if you look at REL_10_STABLE. So the answer would
be to move a bit down the quick exit code. Attached is a patch.

Amit, that's your code. What do you think?

Thanks,
-- 
Michael