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The original intent in heap_page_items() was to return nulls, not throw an error or crash, if an item was sufficiently corrupt that we couldn't safely extract data from it. However, commit d6061f83a utterly missed that memo, and not only put in an un-length-checked copy of the tuple's data section, but also managed to break the check on sane nulls-bitmap length. Either mistake could possibly lead to a SIGSEGV crash if the tuple is corrupt. Bug: #18896 Reported-by: Dmitry Kovalenko <d.kovalenko@postgrespro.ru> Author: Dmitry Kovalenko <d.kovalenko@postgrespro.ru> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18896-add267b8e06663e3@postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 13
The PostgreSQL contrib tree --------------------------- This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be part of the main source tree. This does not preclude their usefulness. User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML documentation. When building from the source distribution, these modules are not built automatically, unless you build the "world" target. You can also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected module, do the same in that module's subdirectory. Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or types. To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command. In a fresh database, you can simply do CREATE EXTENSION module_name; See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this procedure.