Remove typmod checking from the recent security-related patches. It turns
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Remove typmod checking from the recent security-related patches. It turns out that ExecEvalVar and friends don't necessarily have access to a tuple descriptor with correct typmod: it definitely can contain -1, and possibly might contain other values that are different from the Var's value. Arguably this should be cleaned up someday, but it's not a simple change, and in any case typmod discrepancies don't pose a security hazard. Per reports from numerous people :-( I'm not entirely sure whether the failure can occur in 8.0 --- the simple test cases reported so far don't trigger it there. But back-patch the change all the way anyway.
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| src/backend/executor/execQual.c | modified | +9 −9 |