| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Justin Clift" <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Vince Vielhaber" <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in |
| Date: | 2002-08-20 03:47:30 |
| Message-ID: | 2687.1029815250@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
>> test=> select cash_words('-700000000000000000000000000000');
>> Minus twenty one million four hundred seventy four thousand eight
>> hundred thirty six dollars and forty eight cents
> It doesn't crash - but it sure is giving the wrong answer ;)
Well, yeah, it's only a 32-bit storage value. Overflow per se is not
the issue here. (One reason why I'm not excited about fixing this on an
emergency basis is that I can't believe anyone is using the money type
for any mission-critical applications... it's too limited.)
regards, tom lane
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