Re: Fix NULL pointer reference in _outPathTarget()

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2022-04-22T14:18:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> On 20.04.22 18:53, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah, that's another way to do it.  I think though that the unresolved
>> question is whether or not we want the field name to appear in the output
>> when the field is null.  I believe that I intentionally made it not appear
>> originally, so that that case could readily be distinguished.  You could
>> argue that that would complicate life greatly for a _readPathTarget()
>> function, which is true, but I don't foresee that we'll need one.

> We could adapt the convention to print NULL values as "<>", like

Works for me.

			regards, tom lane



Commits

  1. Handle NULL fields in WRITE_INDEX_ARRAY