Re: [NBTREE] Possible NULL pointer dereference (backend/access/nbtree/nbutils.c)

From: Ranier Vilela <ranier(dot)vf(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [NBTREE] Possible NULL pointer dereference (backend/access/nbtree/nbutils.c)
Date: 2020-09-02 22:14:00
Message-ID: CAEudQAqTz2w0e=98vJKCfYJ4tdu6P2-VQ04OU-5p51gxWitQnw@mail.gmail.com
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> Even if BTreeTupleGetHeapTID() did somehow return a NULL
> pointer, then the user would be getting off lightly by experiencing a
> hard crash instead of data corruption.
>
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought that "hard crash" was a bad thing.

Ranier Vilela

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