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Date: Mon, 25 May 2026 17:21:49 +0900
From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: NULL pointer dereference in syslogger with load_libraries() and
 -DEXEC_BACKEND at startup
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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=20
committer: =C1lvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 16:56:57 +0100
Assign "backend" type earlier during process start-up=20

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?
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Michael

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