Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. > On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 11:29:46AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > What's happened is that that GUC patch that was in the tree for a few > > hours broke postmaster startup on some machines (for as-yet-unidentified > > reasons). The postmaster does actually start and establish its > > lockfiles, but it never gets to the stage of being able to accept > > connections. > > I don't know if it's related, but coverity just started picking up a > use-after-free in parse_value() in guc.c. > > At the end of the switch (case PGC_STRING) there's a free(newval) > followed by an assignment of newval to retval->stringval a few lines > further down. They mark it as line 3956 of revision 1.335. > > It may not be possible though, coverity is not omnicient.
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