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author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2017-06-05 12:05:42 -0400 |
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committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2017-06-05 12:05:42 -0400 |
commit | d4663350646ca0c069a36d906155a0f7e3372eb7 (patch) | |
tree | 0bc14a79fae8af098aeea21b7a018cf220c02a6e /src/backend/tcop/postgres.c | |
parent | af51fea039bb8e00066d68d919312df1701dc03e (diff) | |
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Don't be so trusting that shm_toc_lookup() will always succeed.
Given the possibility of race conditions and so on, it seems entirely
unsafe to just assume that shm_toc_lookup() always finds the key it's
looking for --- but that was exactly what all but one call site were
doing. To fix, add a "bool noError" argument, similarly to what we
have in many other functions, and throw an error on an unexpected
lookup failure. Remove now-redundant Asserts that a rather random
subset of call sites had.
I doubt this will throw any light on buildfarm member lorikeet's
recent failures, because if an unnoticed lookup failure were involved,
you'd kind of expect a null-pointer-dereference crash rather than the
observed symptom. But you never know ... and this is better coding
practice even if it never catches anything.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9697.1496675981@sss.pgh.pa.us
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