Re: issue in pgfdw_report_error()?

Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>

From: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
To: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-11-19T15:18:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On 2021/11/19 21:57, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
>> If this is a bug, IMO the following change needs to be applied. Thought?
>>
>> -------------------
>>                   ereport(elevel,
>>                                   (errcode(sqlstate),
>> -                                message_primary ? errmsg_internal("%s", message_primary) :
>> +                                (message_primary != NULL && message_primary[0] != '\0') ?
>> +                                errmsg_internal("%s", message_primary) :
>>                                    errmsg("could not obtain message string for remote error"),
>> -------------------

I attached the patch.


> What if conn->errorMessage.data is NULL and PQerrorMessage returns it?
> The message_primary can still be NULL right?

Since conn->errorMessage is initialized by initPQExpBuffer(),
PQerrorMessage() seems not to return NULL. But *if* it returns NULL,
pchomp(NULL) is executed and would cause a segmentation fault.

Regards,

-- 
Fujii Masao
Advanced Computing Technology Center
Research and Development Headquarters
NTT DATA CORPORATION

Commits

  1. postgres_fdw: Fix unexpected reporting of empty message.