Fix pg_autoctl monitor bad memory access #1091
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The current code in
src/bin/pg_autoctl/monitor.c
use-after-scope bad memory access because it assigns a pointer inside a block that is then used outside this scope.The fix is to move the initialization of the referenced value to the beginning of the function, outside the block scope.
The fix can be seen when running
pg_autoctl perform switchover
.Before:
After: