Re: BUG #16122: segfault pg_detoast_datum (datum=0x0) at fmgr.c:1833numrange query

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 11:38:13AM +0100, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> FWIW I've managed to reproduce this on 10, but I had to build without
> --enable-cassert. So this does trigger the issue:
>
> Haven't investigated further yet.

If you add an ANALYZE on the table natica_hdu_test after restoring, I
am rather sure that you would reproduce the crash more quickly because
the handling around the stats of the column are busted here.  Anyway,
taking my example of upthread, I have been also able to reproduce the
problem on REL_10_STABLE even with assertions enabled: the trick is
that you need to leave once the session after the analyze on the
table.  Then a SELECT within a new session is enough to crash the
server.

The change with stdbool.h actually makes the crash easier to reproduce
as there is no need to leave the session.  I am not sure how it
mattered..

[ ... And one bisect later ... ]

This looks more correct as culprit than the precedent because it
touches the area of the crash:
commit: 9aab83fc5039d83e84144b7bed3fb1d62a74ae78
author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date: Sat, 13 May 2017 15:14:39 -0400
Redesign get_attstatsslot()/free_attstatsslot() for more safety and speed.

It seems to me that that we are simply free'ing an area which still
needs to be accessed for the stat estimations.
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Michael