Re: table schema causes crash

From: <tom(at)minnesota(dot)com>
To: <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: table schema causes crash
Date: 2002-12-21 07:58:01
Message-ID: 3617.63.226.186.156.1040457481.squirrel@www.minnesota.com
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> While studying this I noticed a number of potential buffer overruns in
> the 7.2.3 version of describeTableDetails(). They were mostly fixed
> already in 7.3, and I just committed a fix for one more. However, I do
> not believe that any of these overruns could have occurred in the
> example you give, so there's still something fishy going on. On the
> whole, I'd still bet that it's a 64-bit-platform issue. But where? Good
> luck digging...

I compiled 7.3 and ran it on port 5454 while 7.2.3 was using 5432. On 7.3
the table was created and displayed normally without a segmentation fault.

Apparantly the bug fixes you committed between 7.2.3 and 7.3 fixed the
problem. Thank you.

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