Re: Fix for pg_stat_activity putting client hostaddr into appname field

On 29 March 2018 at 20:46, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 03:47:07PM +1300, Edmund Horner wrote:
>> But the stats array includes auxiliary processes, which means it has
>> NumBackendStatSlots items.  The pointers for the aux process strings
>> are out of range.  In the case of my query, the pointers for
>> st_appname in the aux processes happen to point into the
>> BackendClientHostnameBuffer segment.
>>
>> This patch uses NumBackendStatSlots for the sizes of those segments,
>> rather than MaxBackends.
>
> I am adding in CC Robert and Kuntal who worked on that (issue added as
> well to the older bug section in v11 open item list).

Thanks for making a note of it, Michael.  I guess it should be
considered for the next patch release of v10 too?