Re: Segmentation fault with core dump

On 2013-04-10 19:06:12 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > (Wanders away wondering just how much the regression tests exercise
> > holdable cursors.)
>
> And the answer is they're not testing this code path at all, because if
> you do
>     DECLARE c CURSOR WITH HOLD FOR ...
>     FETCH ALL FROM c;
> then the second query executes with a portal (and resource owner)
> created to execute the FETCH command, not directly on the held portal.
>
> After a little bit of thought I'm not sure it's even possible to
> reproduce this problem with libpq, because it doesn't expose any way to
> issue a bare protocol Execute command against a pre-existing portal.
> (I had thought psqlOBC went through libpq, but maybe it's playing some
> games here.)

Hm. PQexecPrepared() looks like it can do that.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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