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Commit ddc88931 authored by Tom Lane's avatar Tom Lane
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Fix miserable coding in pg_stat_get_activity().

Commit dd1a3bcc replaced a test on whether a subroutine returned a
null pointer with a test on whether &pointer->backendStatus was null.
This accidentally failed to fail, at least on common compilers, because
backendStatus is the first field in the struct; but it was surely trouble
waiting to happen.  Commit f91feba8 then messed things up further,
changing the logic to

	local_beentry = pgstat_fetch_stat_local_beentry(curr_backend);
	if (!local_beentry)
		continue;
	beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus;
	if (!beentry)
	{

where the second "if" is now dead code, so that the intended behavior of
printing a row with "<backend information not available>" cannot occur.

I suspect this is all moot because pgstat_fetch_stat_local_beentry
will never actually return null in this function's usage, but it's still
very poor coding.  Repair back to 9.4 where the original problem was
introduced.
parent 24992c6d
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