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From: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
To: Postgres hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: NULL pointer dereference in syslogger with load_libraries() and -DEXEC_BACKEND at startup
Date: Mon, 25 May 2026 17:21:49 +0900
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Mon, May 25, 2026 at 04:45:41PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> I did not take the cycles necessary for a bisect, but it looks like
> this has been around for a few months at least.  I have pinged
> f3c9e341cdf1 as a safe startup point for now, so that's a 2026 issue.

Well, well:
0c8e082fba8d36434552d3d7800abda54acafd57 is the first bad commit 
committer: Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 16:56:57 +0100
Assign "backend" type earlier during process start-up 

I have also checked manually a revert of this commit, and saw that the
problem is gone, so it does not look like I have messed up my bisect.

Alvaro?
--
Michael


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