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Add some comments about the safety of accessing rolpassword without using 

the normal heap_getattr() machinery.  Per Greg Stark.
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Tom Lane 2007-06-12 17:16:52 +00:00
parent 8be9b50ab4
commit 152133bfaf
1 changed files with 9 additions and 2 deletions
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src/backend/utils/init/flatfiles.c
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@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2007, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/init/flatfiles.c,v 1.25 2007/04/06 04:21:43 tgl Exp $
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/init/flatfiles.c,v 1.26 2007/06/12 17:16:52 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@ -441,7 +441,10 @@ write_auth_file(Relation rel_authid, Relation rel_authmem)
* We can't use heap_getattr() here because during startup we will not
* have any tupdesc for pg_authid. Fortunately it's not too hard to
* work around this. rolpassword is the first possibly-null field so
* we can compute its offset directly.
* we can compute its offset directly. Note that this only works
* reliably because the preceding field (rolconnlimit) is int4, and
* therefore rolpassword is always 4-byte-aligned, and will be at
* the same offset no matter whether it uses 1-byte or 4-byte header.
*/
tp = (char *) tup + tup->t_hoff;
off = offsetof(FormData_pg_authid, rolpassword);
@ -460,6 +463,10 @@ write_auth_file(Relation rel_authid, Relation rel_authmem)
/*
* The password probably shouldn't ever be out-of-line toasted; if
* it is, ignore it, since we can't handle that in startup mode.
*
* It is entirely likely that it's 1-byte format not 4-byte, and
* theoretically possible that it's compressed inline, but textout
* should be able to handle those cases even in startup mode.
*/
if (VARATT_IS_EXTERNAL(DatumGetPointer(datum)))
auth_info[curr_role].rolpassword = pstrdup("");