pgsql: Avoid crash in "postgres -C guc" for a GUC with a null string va - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Tom Lane
Subject pgsql: Avoid crash in "postgres -C guc" for a GUC with a null string va
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Msg-id E1bDZzL-0006o6-Qu@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Avoid crash in "postgres -C guc" for a GUC with a null string value.

Emit "(null)" instead, which was the behavior all along on platforms
that don't crash, eg OS X.  Per report from Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais.
Back-patch to 9.2 where -C option was introduced.

Michael Paquier

Report: <20160615204036.2d35d86a@firost>

Branch
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master

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/0b0baf26211a98a8593279fa24635bc4dd9ac99d

Modified Files
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src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


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