Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> If pg_dump fails to connect to Postgres, it attempts to print an error
> message in ConnectDatabase():
> ...
> But if no database is explicitly specified, `dbname' is NULL, and libc
> is entitled to crash if you pass a NULL pointer to it for a %s
> formatting sequence (it actually does crash on Solaris, for example --
> per report from Omar Kilani).
[ scratches head... ] Did this code change recently? It's a tad hard
to believe that such a thing could have gone unnoticed for long.
regards, tom lane