Re: Fixes a clip bug in pg_stat_get_backend_activity()
Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Cc: Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-12-26T05:59:33Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Dec 26, 2025 at 11:54:38AM +0800, Chao Li wrote: > This is an eyeball caught bug: > ``` > clipped_activity = pgstat_clip_activity(activity); > ret = cstring_to_text(activity); <== bug here: should use clipped_activity > pfree(clipped_activity); > > PG_RETURN_TEXT_P(ret); > ``` > clipped result is stored in clipped_activity, but it's not used. Ohh.... Oops. Nice catch. > This should be an edge case bug. It would only be triggered by using > multi-byte characters in SQL and the SQL statement length > exceeds track_activity_query_size, and a multi-byte character just across > the boundary and gets truncated in the middle. Yep, that seems wrong since 54b6cd589ac2, meaning a backpatch all the way down. pg_stat_get_backend_activity() is a less popular solution than pg_stat_activity, so this would unlikely be hit, still wrong it is. -- Michael