Avoid trying to print a NULL char pointer in --describe-config. On some

 platforms this works, but on some it crashes.  Zdenek Kotala
 
 

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/help_config.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/help_config.c
index 0c27f96dee1b4f6ed8190b15002a4f9450e56b00..1fdd134b72968817777b9e79641b655a643252a3 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/help_config.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/help_config.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2008, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *   $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/misc/help_config.c,v 1.19 2008/01/01 19:45:54 momjian Exp $
+ *   $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/misc/help_config.c,v 1.20 2008/02/23 19:23:33 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ printMixedStruct(mixedStruct *structToPrint)
 
        case PGC_STRING:
            printf("STRING\t%s\t\t\t",
-                  structToPrint->string.boot_val);
+                  structToPrint->string.boot_val ? structToPrint->string.boot_val : "");
            break;
 
        default: