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-rw-r--r--src/backend/utils/error/elog.c21
-rw-r--r--src/backend/utils/mmgr/mcxt.c6
2 files changed, 26 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c b/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c
index 3de162b9d53..8705586d565 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c
@@ -311,6 +311,18 @@ errstart(int elevel, const char *filename, int lineno,
return false;
/*
+ * We need to do some actual work. Make sure that memory context
+ * initialization has finished, else we can't do anything useful.
+ */
+ if (ErrorContext == NULL)
+ {
+ /* Ooops, hard crash time; very little we can do safely here */
+ write_stderr("error occurred at %s:%d before error message processing is available\n",
+ filename ? filename : "(unknown file)", lineno);
+ exit(2);
+ }
+
+ /*
* Okay, crank up a stack entry to store the info in.
*/
@@ -1238,6 +1250,15 @@ elog_start(const char *filename, int lineno, const char *funcname)
{
ErrorData *edata;
+ /* Make sure that memory context initialization has finished */
+ if (ErrorContext == NULL)
+ {
+ /* Ooops, hard crash time; very little we can do safely here */
+ write_stderr("error occurred at %s:%d before error message processing is available\n",
+ filename ? filename : "(unknown file)", lineno);
+ exit(2);
+ }
+
if (++errordata_stack_depth >= ERRORDATA_STACK_SIZE)
{
/*
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/mmgr/mcxt.c b/src/backend/utils/mmgr/mcxt.c
index b60ca90d0a3..7b089f77df8 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/mmgr/mcxt.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/mmgr/mcxt.c
@@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ static void MemoryContextStatsInternal(MemoryContext context, int level);
* In normal multi-backend operation, this is called once during
* postmaster startup, and not at all by individual backend startup
* (since the backends inherit an already-initialized context subsystem
- * by virtue of being forked off the postmaster).
+ * by virtue of being forked off the postmaster). But in an EXEC_BACKEND
+ * build, each process must do this for itself.
*
* In a standalone backend this must be called during backend startup.
*/
@@ -106,6 +107,9 @@ MemoryContextInit(void)
* where retained memory in a context is *essential* --- we want to be
* sure ErrorContext still has some memory even if we've run out
* elsewhere!
+ *
+ * This should be the last step in this function, as elog.c assumes memory
+ * management works once ErrorContext is non-null.
*/
ErrorContext = AllocSetContextCreate(TopMemoryContext,
"ErrorContext",