Re: SIGSEGV from START_REPLICATION 0/XXXXXXX in XLogSendPhysical () at walsender.c:2762

From: Dave Cramer <davecramer(at)postgres(dot)rocks>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>, Masahiko Sawada <masahiko(dot)sawada(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Vladimir Sitnikov <sitnikov(dot)vladimir(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Subject: Re: SIGSEGV from START_REPLICATION 0/XXXXXXX in XLogSendPhysical () at walsender.c:2762
Date: 2020-06-24 19:50:37
Message-ID: CADK3HHJtd14MW5AV5sN+acxPP7Y4sVqUqhf141XbcG8j8d_mMw@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 at 15:41, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:

> On 2020-Jun-24, Robert Haas wrote:
>
> > So really I think this turns on #1: is it plausible
> > that people are using this feature, however inadvertent it may be, and
> > is it potentially useful? I don't see that anybody's made an argument
> > against either of those things. Unless someone can do so, I think we
> > shouldn't disable this.
>
> People (specifically the jdbc driver) *are* using this feature in this
> way, but they didn't realize they were doing it. It was an accident and
> they didn't notice.
>
>
Not sure we are using it as much as we accidently did it that way. It would
be trivial to fix.

That said I think we should fix the security hole this opens and leave the
functionality.

Dave

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