From 1743778d04cfbbdd7fc89f1130979658fa9fae4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:44:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] If RelationBuildDesc() fails to open a critical system index,
 PANIC with a relevant error message instead of just dumping core.  Odd that
 nobody reported this before Darren Reed.

---
 src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c b/src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c
index 71abf31f099..ca4305c60ba 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c,v 1.266 2008/01/01 19:45:53 momjian Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c,v 1.267 2008/02/27 17:44:19 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -2550,7 +2550,10 @@ RelationCacheInitializePhase2(void)
 
 #define LOAD_CRIT_INDEX(indexoid) \
 		do { \
-			ird = RelationBuildDesc((indexoid), NULL); \
+			ird = RelationBuildDesc(indexoid, NULL); \
+			if (ird == NULL) \
+				elog(PANIC, "could not open critical system index %u", \
+					 indexoid); \
 			ird->rd_isnailed = true; \
 			ird->rd_refcnt = 1; \
 		} while (0)
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