Re: dbmirror bug

Good catch. Fix will be in 7.3.

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Hai-Chen Tu wrote:
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> dbmirror generates "out of memory" error in some
> cases when the DEBUG_OUTPUT is enabled.
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> The cause of the problem is that pending.c in dbmirror
> uses
> elog(NOTICE, cpKeyData)
> and
> elog(NOTICE, cpFieldData)
> to print column data where elog
> interprets the second argument as sprintf
> format string, which fails if
> cpKeyData/cpFieldData contains '%'.
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> The solution is to change
> elog(NOTICE, ...)
> to
> elog(NOTICE, "%s", ...)
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> This applies to all cpKeyData and cpFieldData,
> and probably cpFieldName.
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