Re: Buildfarm owners: check if your HEAD build is stuck

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.

Hope this helps,
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