From 660fbec560335292db9e05e4ad5d46437bb806bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:53:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Prevent show_session_authorization from crashing when
 session_authorization hasn't been set.

The only known case where this can happen is when show_session_authorization
is invoked in an autovacuum process, which is possible if an index function
calls it, as for example in bug #5669 from Andrew Geery.  We could perhaps
try to return a sensible value, such as the name of the cluster-owning
superuser; but that seems like much more trouble than the case is worth,
and in any case it could create new possible failure modes.  Simply
returning an empty string seems like the most appropriate fix.

Back-patch to all supported versions, even those before autovacuum, just
in case there's another way to provoke this crash.
---
 src/backend/commands/variable.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/variable.c b/src/backend/commands/variable.c
index 219ceba7ce5..bbeb50f332a 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/variable.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/variable.c
@@ -771,6 +771,10 @@ show_session_authorization(void)
 	Oid			savedoid;
 	char	   *endptr;
 
+	/* If session_authorization hasn't been set in this process, return "" */
+	if (value == NULL || value[0] == '\0')
+		return "";
+
 	Assert(strspn(value, "x") == NAMEDATALEN &&
 		   (value[NAMEDATALEN] == 'T' || value[NAMEDATALEN] == 'F'));
 
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