Re: postgres crashing on a seemingly good query

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Cc: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)oryx(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: postgres crashing on a seemingly good query
Date: 2005-02-21 03:23:18
Message-ID: 20774.1108956198@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> writes:
> On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 14:35 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Good catch. I've applied the attached patch (this is against 8.0/CVS
>> tip but applies with some fuzz to 7.4).

> Is there a way to repro this via SQL? (It would be nice to have a
> regression test...)

No, because there's no way to specify a parameter of unknown type at
the SQL level.

The V3 protocol has a whole lot of behavior that cannot be tested by
psql scripts. Maybe we ought to think about adding some other kind
of test mechanism for it.

regards, tom lane

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