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From Jaime Casanova
Subject pg_basebackup is not checking IDENTIFY_SYSTEM numbre of columns
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Responses Re: pg_basebackup is not checking IDENTIFY_SYSTEM numbre of columns  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Hi,

I just notice $SUBJECT and this could lead us to a segmentation fault
if by accident we point to a system with a different number of columns
in IDENTIFY_SYSTEM, at least i point pg_receivexlog from current head
to a 9.0 instalation and got that.

Any reason for not checking number of columns?

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