Re: [ODBC] Segmentation Fault in Postgres server when using psqlODBC

From: Joshua Berry <yoberi(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Hiroshi Inoue <inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ODBC] Segmentation Fault in Postgres server when using psqlODBC
Date: 2013-06-11 16:04:39
Message-ID: CAPmZXM0ye9i3ib+pXoimf6C6GpGUgdKbvydUFFg2+VQyj+u-6Q@mail.gmail.com
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Hiroshi Inoue has developed the attached patch to correct the issue that
was reported. More of the dialogue can be found in the pgsql-odbc list.

The root issue:

Inoue, Hiroshi <inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp <mailto:inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>> wrote:
>>
>> It's also preferrable to fix the crash at backend.
>> The crash is caused by execute commands after commit.
>>
>
Regarding testing:

> Is there any test code that I could leverage to put together a test case
>> which can quickly invoke the backend problem that I'm seeing? Perhaps
>> something that is used in the pgsqlODBC project or something else you
>> or others might have sitting around? I would like to have a
>> testapp/function that could help verify that the issue has been fixed in
>> a future backend patch/release.
>>
>
> It seems difficult to provide a test code. However I can reproduce
> the crash by changing 1 line of psqlodbc driver source code with a
> test case. For example, the crash is fixed by the attached patch.
>
>
> I've never explicitly used EXECUTE. Could I construct a plpgsql script
>> which could use EXECUTE in a similar manner as psqlODBC, thus creating a
>> test case that would have greater portability?
>>
>
> Oops it's an Execute message used in extended query protocol not a
> *EXECUTE* command.
>

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