| From: | David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com> | 
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| To: | "Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu)" <houzj(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com> | 
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> | 
| Subject: | Re: Add null termination to string received in parallel apply worker | 
| Date: | 2023-10-26 03:40:27 | 
| Message-ID: | CAApHDvomM6-+5anPAOndm9kEO+2J-EtQ4vH1rq1zU9=Yj-aKAg@mail.gmail.com | 
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On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 at 19:54, Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu)
<houzj(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com> wrote:
> The parallel apply worker didn't add null termination to the string received
> from the leader apply worker via the shared memory queue. This action doesn't
> bring bugs as it's binary data but violates the rule established in StringInfo,
> which guarantees the presence of a terminating '\0' at the end of the string.
Just for anyone not following the other thread that you linked,  I
just pushed f0efa5aec, and, providing that sticks, I think we can drop
this discussion now.
That commit relaxes the requirement that the StringInfo must be NUL terminated.
David
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