Re: [9.2] crash on regex

Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Following query crashes backend on 9.2:
>>
>> select substring('asd TO foo' from ' TO (([a-z0-9._]+|"([^"]+|"")+")+)');

> I spent some time trying to reduce this to the simplest case that
> still causes a crash, and came up with this:

> select substring('a' from '((a))+');

Yeah, I'm looking at it. Looks like I broke memory management somewhere
in the quantifier revisions --- it seems to be stomping the stack during
cleanup at the end of pg_regexec. Possibly a multiple-free deal?
Haven't quite found it yet.

regards, tom lane