Heikki Linnakangas writes:
> I think it would be good to have a circuit-breaker to break the infinite
> recursion in case PANIC fails and recurses, for any reason.
Well, your proposed patch replaces core dump due to stack overflow with
core dump due to abort(), which is no improvement at all as
Tom Lane wrote:
Heikki Linnakangas writes:
Tom Lane wrote:
I wonder how ugly it would be to try to suppress encoding
conversion as well?
The error message might contain user data, which might contain non-ASCII
characters. Or maybe not, but it seems like a shaky assumption to make.
The pa
Heikki Linnakangas writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I wonder how ugly it would be to try to suppress encoding
>> conversion as well?
> The error message might contain user data, which might contain non-ASCII
> characters. Or maybe not, but it seems like a shaky assumption to make.
The particular c
Tom Lane wrote:
Heikki Linnakangas writes:
When the conversion function doesn't work, any attempt to send any text
to the client will fail.
Ah, now I remember: we arranged to short-circuit translation of the
error message when we were in this situation. But it will still get
passed through t
Heikki Linnakangas writes:
> When the conversion function doesn't work, any attempt to send any text
> to the client will fail.
Ah, now I remember: we arranged to short-circuit translation of the
error message when we were in this situation. But it will still get
passed through the encoding con
Tom Lane wrote:
Heikki Linnakangas writes:
I think we should instead try to break the PANIC cycle. If we exceed
ERRORDATA_STACK_SIZE, and we're already PANICing, we should just die
immediately instead of throwing another PANIC about exceeding the stack
size. The attached patch does that.
I
Heikki Linnakangas writes:
> I think we should instead try to break the PANIC cycle. If we exceed
> ERRORDATA_STACK_SIZE, and we're already PANICing, we should just die
> immediately instead of throwing another PANIC about exceeding the stack
> size. The attached patch does that.
I don't think
Denis Afonin wrote:
test=# CREATE DEFAULT CONVERSION test1 FOR 'LATIN1' TO 'KOI8' FROM
ascii_to_mic;
CREATE CONVERSION
test=# CREATE DEFAULT CONVERSION test2 FOR 'KOI8' TO 'LATIN1' FROM
mic_to_ascii;
CREATE CONVERSION
test=# set client_encoding to 'LATIN1';
server closed the connection unexpected
The following bug has been logged online:
Bug reference: 4680
Logged by: Denis Afonin
Email address: v...@itkm.ru
PostgreSQL version: 8.3.6
Operating system: Linux Debian Lenny
Description:Server crashed if using wrong (mismatch) conversion
functions
Details:
I do:
