Re: pgsql: Fix another instance of unsafe coding for shm_toc_lookup failure

2018-02-04 Thread Tom Lane
Thomas Munro writes: > On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 3:08 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> OK. Please send in a patch to either do that or switch this call to use >> noError = false. Or possibly both: shouldn't there be some other signal >> path that tells the worker whether instrumentation is needed? I'll >>

Re: pgsql: Fix another instance of unsafe coding for shm_toc_lookup failure

2018-02-04 Thread Thomas Munro
On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 3:08 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Thomas Munro writes: >> However, it's not surprising that you drew the >> opposite conclusion (ie that it might in fact not be in the TOC), >> since the shm space is really only necessary for EXPLAIN ANALYZE. >> Perhaps I should make it skip setti

Re: pgsql: Fix another instance of unsafe coding for shm_toc_lookup failure

2018-02-02 Thread Tom Lane
Thomas Munro writes: > On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 12:32 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Fix another instance of unsafe coding for shm_toc_lookup failure. > my mistake was actually to put noError = true there when noError = > false was called for. Ah. > However, it's not surprising that you drew the > oppos

Re: pgsql: Fix another instance of unsafe coding for shm_toc_lookup failure

2018-02-02 Thread Thomas Munro
On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 12:32 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Fix another instance of unsafe coding for shm_toc_lookup failure. > > One or another author of commit 5bcf389ec seems to have thought that > computing an offset from a NULL pointer would yield another NULL pointer. > There may possibly be architec