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transformJsonParseArg() was not careful enough on generation of
transformed expressions when starting from expressions that are not
coercible to text but are in the string type category: it failed to
verify that coerce_to_target_type() succeeds, and returned a NULL
pointer. This leads to a later NULL dereference and crash at executor
time.
This escaped noticed because it cannot happen for built-in types, all of
which have casts to text. Only user-created types are potentially
problematic.
Fix by raising an error when a cast to text doesn't exist.
This mistake came in with commit 6ee30209a6.
Author: Ayush Tiwari <ayushtiwari.slg01@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Chi Zhang <798604270@qq.com>
Reviewed-by: Srinath Reddy Sadipiralla <srinath2133@gmail.com>
Backpatch-through: 16
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19491-7aafc221ec63f288@postgresql.org
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