Re: @(#)Mordred Labs advisory 0x0004: Multiple buffer

On 20 Aug 2002, Neil Conway wrote:

> Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com> writes:
> > And another one.
>
> This patch should fix the problem. Doesn't include my previous patch
> for repeat(). Again, somewhat off-the-cuff, so I might have missed
> something...
>
> test=# select lpad('xxxxx',1431655765,'yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy');
> ERROR: Requested length too large
> test=# select rpad('xxxxx',1431655765,'yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy');
> ERROR: Requested length too large
>
> (That's on a Unicode DB, haven't tested other encodings but AFAICT
> this fix should still work.)

Is there any chance that pg_database_encoding_max_length() could return
zero and give a divide by zero error? Or is that trapped?

Vince.
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