Neil Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If pg_dump fails to connect to Postgres, it attempts to print an error
message in ConnectDatabase():
...
But if no database is explicitly specified, `dbname' is NULL, and libc
is entitled to crash if you pass a NULL pointer to it for a %s
formatting
Tom Lane wrote:
[ scratches head... ] Did this code change recently? It's a tad hard
to believe that such a thing could have gone unnoticed for long.
Seems the problem was introduced here:
http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_db.c.diff?r1=1.58;r2=1.59
Tom Lane wrote:
I'd go with reverting it to using PQdb, myself.
Fair enough; reverted to using PQdb(), and applied to HEAD and
REL8_0_STABLE.
-Neil
---(end of broadcast)---
TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
Neil Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tom Lane wrote:
[ scratches head... ] Did this code change recently? It's a tad hard
to believe that such a thing could have gone unnoticed for long.
Seems the problem was introduced here:
