Re: PATCH: Uninitialized variable usage in contrib/pg_autovacuum

Patch applied to 7.4.X too.

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Craig Boston wrote:
> Sorry about the cross-post -- I'm not 100% sure which list this should be sent
> to.
>
> I noticed in the 7.4 release that in contrib/pg_autovacuum, args->logfile is
> not initialized if a log file is not specified on the command line. This
> causes an immediate segfault on systems that fill allocated memory with some
> value other than zero (my FreeBSD machine uses 0xD0).
>
> Several crashes later I discovered that args->user, password, host, and port
> are also used without being initialized.
>
> This doesn't appear to be fixed in CVS and I came up empty on a mailing list
> search -- hope it hasn't been reported already.
>
> Attached is a quick patch that fixes the problem.
>
> --
> Craig

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