Re: [BUGS] postmaster segfaults when pg_hba.cof is missing

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 13:13, Rudy Lippan wrote:
> I know this is a broken install, but postmaster should not segfault when 
> it can't find a file.
> 
> postgres@war PGDATA $ ../pgsql7.3/bin/postmaster
> LOG:  load_hba: Unable to open authentication config file 
> "/usr/local/PGDATA/pgsql7.3/pg_hba.conf": No such file or directory
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Good catch. Here's a patch against CVS HEAD that fixes the problem.

The actual segfault was caused by a double pfree(), but ISTM that
failing to find pg_hba.conf should be a fatal error anyway, so I
increased the priority of the elog() from LOG to FATAL and refactored
the code a little bit.

Bruce: unless anyone has an objection, please apply.

Thanks for the report.

Cheers,

Neil