Re: more buffer paranoia

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: more buffer paranoia
Date: 2002-08-27 20:42:26
Message-ID: 200208272042.g7RKgQ713883@candle.pha.pa.us
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Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:

http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches

I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.

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Neil Conway wrote:
> This patch adds length checking for a bunch of instances in the
> backend where a statically sized buffer is written to. Most of these
> should be pretty safe in practice, but it's probably better to be safe
> than sorry.
>
> I was actually looking for cases where NAMEDATALEN is assumed to be
> 32, but only found one. That's fixed too, as well as a few bits of
> code cleanup.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neil
>
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