From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Repair incorrect check for coercion |
Date: | 2006-10-11 22:25:05 |
Message-ID: | 200610112225.k9BMP5F01420@momjian.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Log Message:
> -----------
> Repair incorrect check for coercion of unknown literal to ANYARRAY, a bug
> I introduced in 7.4.1 :-(. It's correct to allow unknown to be coerced to
> ANY or ANYELEMENT, since it's a real-enough data type, but it most certainly
> isn't an array datatype. This can cause a backend crash but AFAICT is not
> exploitable as a security hole. Per report from Michael Fuhr.
>
> Note: as fixed in HEAD, this changes a constant in the pg_stats view,
> resulting in a change in the expected regression outputs. The back-branch
> patches have been hacked to avoid that, so that pre-existing installations
> won't start failing their regression tests.
Does this mean if someone initdb's in a back branch, the regression
tests will start failing for them?
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