Re: pg_dump 9.1.1 hanging (collectSecLabels gets 0 labels)

Steve Singer <ssinger@ca.afilias.info>

From: Steve Singer <ssinger@ca.afilias.info>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-11-10T19:52:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 11-11-10 02:00 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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
>

Yes the problem is still fixed if I only apply the first hunk.