| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Numeric 508 datatype |
| Date: | 2005-12-02 22:39:34 |
| Message-ID: | 8343.1133563174@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> That would only affect a standalone backend, however, not normal
>> operation.
> Ah, psql itself is using the same buggy snprintf.c.
Doh. OK, we gotta fix it then. But what are you going to do when you
can't malloc enough memory? You can't ereport in a client environment,
and there's no API for printf to report failure.
regards, tom lane
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