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Fix still another bug in commit 35fcb1b3d: it failed to fully initialize the SortSupport states it introduced to allow the executor to re-check ORDER BY expressions containing distance operators. That led to a null pointer dereference if the sortsupport code tried to use ssup_cxt. The problem only manifests in narrow cases, explaining the lack of previous field reports. It requires a GiST-indexable distance operator that lacks SortSupport and is on a pass-by-ref data type, which among core+contrib seems to be only btree_gist's interval opclass; and it requires the scan to be done as an IndexScan not an IndexOnlyScan, which explains how btree_gist's regression test didn't catch it. Per bug #14134 from Jihyun Yu. Peter Geoghegan Report: <20160511154904.2603.43889@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
The PostgreSQL contrib tree
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This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly
because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be
part of the main source tree. This does not preclude their
usefulness.
User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
documentation.
When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
built automatically, unless you build the "world" target. You can
also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make
install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.
Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
types. To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command. In a fresh database,
you can simply do
CREATE EXTENSION module_name;
See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.