[ Will be backpatched.]
Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:
http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches
I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.
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Neil Conway wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 13:13, Rudy Lippan wrote:
> > I know this is a broken install, but postmaster should not segfault when
> > it can't find a file.
> >
> > postgres@war PGDATA $ ../pgsql7.3/bin/postmaster
> > LOG: load_hba: Unable to open authentication config file
> > "/usr/local/PGDATA/pgsql7.3/pg_hba.conf": No such file or directory
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> Good catch. Here's a patch against CVS HEAD that fixes the problem.
>
> The actual segfault was caused by a double pfree(), but ISTM that
> failing to find pg_hba.conf should be a fatal error anyway, so I
> increased the priority of the elog() from LOG to FATAL and refactored
> the code a little bit.
>
> Bruce: unless anyone has an objection, please apply.
>
> Thanks for the report.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neil
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