Re: NULL pointer dereference in syslogger with load_libraries() and -DEXEC_BACKEND at startup

Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com>

From: "Euler Taveira" <euler@eulerto.com>

To: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>

Cc: "Michael Paquier" <michael@paquier.xyz>, "Kyotaro Horiguchi" <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org

Date: 2026-05-27T00:13:30Z

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Fix syslogger NULL-pointer-dereference in EXEC_BACKEND
- fb23cc7e81db 19 (unreleased) landed
Assign "backend" type earlier during process start-up
- 0c8e082fba8d 19 (unreleased) cited

On Tue, May 26, 2026, at 2:21 PM, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
>
> All in all, I don't think we should cut corners here just to save one
> boolean variable.
>

As I said I'm fine with your proposed patch.


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