bogus assert in logicalmsg_desc
Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
From: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
To: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-08-14T16:16:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Attachments
- logicalmsgdesc-fix.patch (text/x-patch) patch
Hi,
while experimenting with logical messages, I ran into this assert in
logicalmsg_desc:
Assert(prefix[xlrec->prefix_size] != '\0');
This seems to be incorrect, because LogLogicalMessage does this:
xlrec.prefix_size = strlen(prefix) + 1;
So prefix_size includes the null byte, so the assert points out at the
first payload byte. And of course, the check should be "==" because we
expect the byte to be \0, not the other way around.
It's pretty simple to make this crash by writing a logical message where
the first payload byte is \0, e.g. like this:
select pg_logical_emit_message(true, 'a'::text, '\x00'::bytea);
and then running pg_waldump on the WAL segment.
Attached is a patch addressing this. This was added in 14, so we should
backpatch to that version.
regards
--
Tomas Vondra
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
Commits
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Fix assert in logicalmsg_desc
- 239c3ee41be3 14.6 landed
- be6aadf07d00 15.0 landed
- c52ad9c4efdb 16.0 landed