| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Keith Fiske <keith(at)omniti(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Marko Tiikkaja <marko(at)joh(dot)to>, Keith <keith(at)keithf4(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, "pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #14322: Possible inconsistent behavior with timestamp_to_str() |
| Date: | 2016-09-13 21:21:38 |
| Message-ID: | 17047.1473801698@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Keith Fiske <keith(at)omniti(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Marko Tiikkaja <marko(at)joh(dot)to> wrote:
>> Did you miss this part?
>> /* [ ... ] Note
>> * also that the result is in a static buffer, not pstrdup'd.
Oh, duh.
> Yeah I did see that when i went to look at its source and wondered if that
> may be why, but I'm still fairly new to C and wasn't sure that was the
> reason.
> Still think it would be nice to use it in a more flexible manner.
You can pstrdup its result if you want. If it did that internally
it would result in some memory leaks we didn't want, IIRC.
regards, tom lane
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