Re: Tuple sort is broken. It crashes on simple test.

2017-01-16 19:24 GMT+01:00 Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>:

> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 3:48 AM, Michael Paquier
> <michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Indeed. It crashes for me immediately by adding an ORDER BY:
> > select count(distinct t) from seq_tab order by 1;
>
> The problem was that one particular call to the macro
> RELEASE_SLAB_SLOT() happened to lack a test-for-NULL-argument needed
> by pass-by-value datum cases. The other two RELEASE_SLAB_SLOT() calls
> already have such a check.
>
> Attached patch fixes the bug.
>
>
Should not be enhanced regress tests too?

Regards

Pavel


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