Re: pg_dump 9.1.1 hanging (collectSecLabels gets 0 labels)
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Steve Singer <ssinger@ca.afilias.info>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-11-10T19:00:33Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Steve Singer <ssinger@ca.afilias.info> writes: > The man page for malloc on AIX is pretty clear on what happens when you > try to malloc 0 bytes. It returns NULL. Yes, that's a pretty common behavior for malloc(0). It should not cause a problem here AFAICS. ... Oh, I see, the problem is that &labels[-1] might not compare to &labels[0] the way we want. I think only the first hunk of your patch is actually necessary. regards, tom lane