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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: Greg Nancarrow <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Smith <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PublicationActions - use bit flags.
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 21:31:17 +0100
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On 21.01.22 01:05, Greg Nancarrow wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 12:55 PM Greg Nancarrow <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 11:56 AM Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Removing this is not good:
>>>
>>>          if (relation->rd_pubactions)
>>> -       {
>>>                  pfree(relation->rd_pubactions);
>>> -               relation->rd_pubactions = NULL;
>>> -       }
>>>
>>> If the subsequent palloc fails, you've created a problem where
>>> there was none before.
>>>
>>
>> Oops, yeah, I got carried away; if palloc() failed and called exit(),
>> then it would end up crashing when trying to use/pfree rd_pubactions
>> again.
>> Better leave that line in ...
>>
> 
> Attaching an updated patch to fix that oversight.
> This patch thus fixes the original palloc issue in a minimal way,
> keeping the same relcache structure.

Why can't GetRelationPublicationActions() have the PublicationActions as 
a return value, instead of changing it to an output argument?






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