Re: PostgreSQL 8.3.4 reproducible crash

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> 1. Ensure that a snapshot is set before doing parse analysis of any
>> non-utility command.

> I think this is the easiest way out, and the most robust -- we won't be
> bitten by some other operation that the parser may think of doing.

Yeah. I think we probably have to do that in any case because we have
an assumption that datatype input routines are allowed to make use of
a snapshot (see comments in fastpath.c for instance). The fact that
no one's noticed this crash before suggests that none of the common ones
actually do, but I don't think we want to back off that assumption.

There's still a question of whether we want to alter the treatment of
record-type input to make the handling of embedded domains more uniform,
but that's something for the future.

regards, tom lane