Patch applied to 7.4.X too. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Craig Boston wrote: > Sorry about the cross-post -- I'm not 100% sure which list this should be sent > to. > > I noticed in the 7.4 release that in contrib/pg_autovacuum, args->logfile is > not initialized if a log file is not specified on the command line. This > causes an immediate segfault on systems that fill allocated memory with some > value other than zero (my FreeBSD machine uses 0xD0). > > Several crashes later I discovered that args->user, password, host, and port > are also used without being initialized. > > This doesn't appear to be fixed in CVS and I came up empty on a mailing list > search -- hope it hasn't been reported already. > > Attached is a quick patch that fixes the problem. > > -- > Craig [ Attachment, skipping... ] > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
