This was broken by the following commmit. Although the original commit was
backpatched all the way to 7.4, this particular bug exists only in the version
applied to HEAD.
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2010-05/msg00058.php
*
* Copyright (c) 2000-2010, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
*
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/psql/command.c,v 1.219 2010/05/08 16:39:51 tgl Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/psql/command.c,v 1.220 2010/05/21 17:37:44 rhaas Exp $
*/
#include "postgres_fe.h"
#include "command.h"
size_t len;
/* strip any trailing spaces and semicolons */
- len = strlen(opt);
- while (len > 0 &&
- (isspace((unsigned char) opt[len - 1]) || opt[len - 1] == ';'))
- opt[--len] = '\0';
+ if (opt)
+ {
+ len = strlen(opt);
+ while (len > 0 &&
+ (isspace((unsigned char) opt[len - 1])
+ || opt[len - 1] == ';'))
+ opt[--len] = '\0';
+ }
helpSQL(opt, pset.popt.topt.pager);
free(opt);