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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Alexander Lakhin <[email protected]>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Rethinking the implementation of ts_headline()
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2023 15:55:58 -0400
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Alexander Lakhin <[email protected]> writes:
> I've found that starting from commit 5a617d75 this query:
> SELECT ts_headline('english', 'To be, or not to be', to_tsquery('english', 'or'));
> invokes a valgrind-detected error:
> ==00:00:00:03.950 3241424== Invalid read of size 1

On my machine, I also see PG-reported errors such as "unrecognized
operator: 0".  It's a live bug all right.  We need to be more careful
about empty tsqueries.

> But the less-verbose call:
> SELECT ts_headline('', '');

> discovers a different error even on 5a617d75~1:
> ==00:00:00:04.113 3139158== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
> ==00:00:00:04.113 3139158==    at 0x77B44F: mark_fragment (wparser_def.c:2100)

Yeah, this one seems to be ancient sloppiness.  I don't think it has
any bad effect beyond annoying valgrind, but I fixed it anyway.

Thanks for the report!

			regards, tom lane






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