catcache.c: use C_COLLATION_OID for texteqfast/texthashfast.

The problem report was about setting GUCs in the startup packet for a
physical replication connection. Setting the GUC required an ACL
check, which performed a lookup on pg_parameter_acl.parname. The
catalog cache was hardwired to use DEFAULT_COLLATION_OID for
texteqfast() and texthashfast(), but the database default collation
was uninitialized because it's a physical walsender and never connects
to a database. In versions 18 and later, this resulted in a NULL
pointer dereference, while in version 17 it resulted in an ERROR.

As the comments stated, using DEFAULT_COLLATION_OID was arbitrary
anyway: if the collation actually mattered, it should have used the
column's actual collation. (In the catalog, some text columns are the
default collation and some are "C".)

Fix by using C_COLLATION_OID, which doesn't require any initialization
and is always available. When any deterministic collation will do,
it's best to consistently use the simplest and fastest one, so this is
a good idea anyway.

Another problem was raised in the thread, which this commit doesn't
fix (see second discussion link).

Reported-by: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/D18AD72A-5004-4EF8-AF80-10732AF677FA@yandex-team.ru
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4524ed61a015d3496fc008644dcb999bb31916a7.camel%40j-davis.com
Backpatch-through: 17
This commit is contained in:
Jeff Davis 2026-04-22 10:22:44 -07:00
parent e471dc5912
commit dbf217c1c7

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@ -205,6 +205,10 @@ nameeqfast(Datum a, Datum b)
char *ca = NameStr(*DatumGetName(a));
char *cb = NameStr(*DatumGetName(b));
/*
* Catalogs only use deterministic collations, so ignore column collation
* and use fast path.
*/
return strncmp(ca, cb, NAMEDATALEN) == 0;
}
@ -213,6 +217,10 @@ namehashfast(Datum datum)
{
char *key = NameStr(*DatumGetName(datum));
/*
* Catalogs only use deterministic collations, so ignore column collation
* and use fast path.
*/
return hash_bytes((unsigned char *) key, strlen(key));
}
@ -244,17 +252,20 @@ static bool
texteqfast(Datum a, Datum b)
{
/*
* The use of DEFAULT_COLLATION_OID is fairly arbitrary here. We just
* want to take the fast "deterministic" path in texteq().
* Catalogs only use deterministic collations, so ignore column collation
* and use "C" locale for efficiency.
*/
return DatumGetBool(DirectFunctionCall2Coll(texteq, DEFAULT_COLLATION_OID, a, b));
return DatumGetBool(DirectFunctionCall2Coll(texteq, C_COLLATION_OID, a, b));
}
static uint32
texthashfast(Datum datum)
{
/* analogously here as in texteqfast() */
return DatumGetInt32(DirectFunctionCall1Coll(hashtext, DEFAULT_COLLATION_OID, datum));
/*
* Catalogs only use deterministic collations, so ignore column collation
* and use "C" locale for efficiency.
*/
return DatumGetInt32(DirectFunctionCall1Coll(hashtext, C_COLLATION_OID, datum));
}
static bool