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Tom Lane f469f634ad Fix plpython crash when returning string representation of a RECORD result.
PLyString_ToComposite() blithely overwrote proc->result.out.d, even though
for a composite result type the other union variant proc->result.out.r is
the one that should be valid.  This could result in a crash if out.r had
in fact been filled in (proc->result.is_rowtype == 1) and then somebody
later attempted to use that data; as per bug #13579 from Paweł Michalak.

Just to add insult to injury, it didn't work for RECORD results anyway,
because record_in() would refuse the case.

Fix by doing the I/O function lookup in a local PLyTypeInfo variable,
as we were doing already in PLyObject_ToComposite().  This is not a great
technique because any fn_extra data allocated by the input function will
be leaked permanently (thanks to using TopMemoryContext as fn_mcxt).
But that's a pre-existing issue that is much less serious than a crash,
so leave it to be fixed separately.

This bug would be a potential security issue, except that plpython is
only available to superusers and the crash requires coding the function
in a way that didn't work before today's patches.

Add regression test cases covering all the supported methods of converting
composite results.

Back-patch to 9.1 where the faulty coding was introduced.
2015-08-21 12:21:37 -04:00
config Update config.guess and config.sub 2015-08-19 11:46:09 -04:00
contrib Don't use function definitions looking like old-style ones. 2015-08-15 17:25:00 +02:00
doc doc: Whitespace and formatting fixes 2015-08-20 22:47:08 -04:00
src Fix plpython crash when returning string representation of a RECORD result. 2015-08-21 12:21:37 -04:00
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.gitattributes Add functions for dealing with PGP armor header lines to pgcrypto. 2014-10-01 16:03:39 +03:00
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aclocal.m4 Replace our hacked version of ax_pthread.m4 with latest upstream version. 2015-07-08 20:36:06 +03:00
configure Improve configure test for the sse4.2 crc instruction. 2015-08-17 11:15:46 +02:00
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