The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 1303
Logged by: Yevgeniy Kondratiev

Email address: sundaw (AT) rex400 (DOT) ru

PostgreSQL version: 7.4.5

Operating system: RHEL3

Description: backend crashes due wrong TCP packet

Details:

over, i think, network problems or ODBC errors there are some wrong packets
which crash postgresql backend.

TCP package with postgresql data (hex) 58 00 00 00 00 00
doest it.



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Not for me. The backend logs a complaint about invalid message length
and disconnects, which is what it's supposed to do.

regards, tom lane

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