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commit    ec86152e02090d086caf170c77b3f559ce27e830
Author:   Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Date:     Tue Feb 17 02:04:58 2026 +0000

    Suppress new "may be used uninitialized" warning.
    
    Various buildfarm members, having compilers like gcc 8.5 and 6.3, fail
    to deduce that text_substring() variable "E" is initialized if
    slice_size!=-1.  This suppression approach quiets gcc 8.5; I did not
    reproduce the warning elsewhere.  Back-patch to v14, like commit
    9f4fd119b2cbb9a41ec0c19a8d6ec9b59b92c125.
    
    Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1157953.1771266105@sss.pgh.pa.us
    Backpatch-through: 14


 src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c
index da2ff48f6b7..48b66870296 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c
@@ -948,14 +948,14 @@ text_substring(Datum str, int32 start, int32 length, bool length_not_specified)
 
 		if (length_not_specified)	/* special case - get length to end of
 									 * string */
-			slice_size = L1 = -1;
+			E = slice_size = L1 = -1;
 		else if (length < 0)
 		{
 			/* SQL99 says to throw an error for E < S, i.e., negative length */
 			ereport(ERROR,
 					(errcode(ERRCODE_SUBSTRING_ERROR),
 					 errmsg("negative substring length not allowed")));
-			slice_size = L1 = -1;	/* silence stupider compilers */
+			E = slice_size = L1 = -1;	/* silence stupider compilers */
 		}
 		else if (pg_add_s32_overflow(S, length, &E))
 		{


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