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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
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Subject: Re: BUG #15312: Possible access to unintended variable in
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On 2018-Aug-07, PG Bug reporting form wrote:

> While experimenting with a CodeSonar plugin we develop, we noticed a
> potential bug in file "postgres/src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c" line 2698
> function CreateSharedBackendStatus.

Hmm, yeah this is a bug, introduced by commit c8e8b5a6e20b AFAICS.

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