Re: Invalid pg_hba.conf => Postgres crash

Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com> writes:
>   host   all    all    127.0.0.1    trust   sameuser     # HANG
> the future connections will hang leaving a postgres process
> running
> - Inserting the following line instead will crash postgres
>   host  all     127.0.0.1             trust   sameuser        # CRASH

I was able to reproduce the crash but not the hang.  Would you see if
the attached patch fixes both symptoms on your machine?
        regards, tom lane

Index: ip.c
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/backend/libpq/ip.c,v
retrieving revision 1.23
diff -c -r1.23 ip.c
*** ip.c    12 Sep 2003 20:18:51 -0000    1.23
--- ip.c    24 Apr 2004 20:09:21 -0000
***************
*** 67,74 ****  */ int getaddrinfo_all(const char *hostname, const char *servname,
!                 const struct addrinfo * hintp, struct addrinfo ** result) { #ifdef HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS     if (hintp !=
NULL&& hintp->ai_family == AF_UNIX)         return getaddrinfo_unix(servname, hintp, result);
 
--- 67,77 ----  */ int getaddrinfo_all(const char *hostname, const char *servname,
!                 const struct addrinfo *hintp, struct addrinfo **result) {
+     /* not all versions of getaddrinfo() zero *result on failure */
+     *result = NULL;
+  #ifdef HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS     if (hintp != NULL && hintp->ai_family == AF_UNIX)         return
getaddrinfo_unix(servname,hintp, result);