On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> writes: >> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mié sep 22 13:36:18 -0400 2010: >>> Well, the more general point is what should "SHOW session_authorization" >>> show in an autovacuum process? The fact that Andrew wasn't >>> intentionally doing that doesn't mean that someone else might not try >>> it. I think we can either decide it should be an obviously-illegal >>> value, or try to make it return the name of the cluster-creating >>> superuser. The latter seems like more work than it's worth though. > >> +1 for the illegal value. > > OK. I just dug through all the other show-hook functions and confirmed > that show_session_authorization is the only one that will dump core if > its variable is NULL, so it looks like we have just one case to fix. > Will get on it once I get my repo back together ...
Can SHOW return a NULL value, rather than the empty string? -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
