Re: crash in LIBPQ_execute_query

No probs. I'll apply it to CVS. Thanks for testing.

/D

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scot Loach [mailto:sloach(at)sandvine(dot)com]
> Sent: 02 September 2005 15:22
> To: Dave Page; pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Cc: Anoop Kumar
> Subject: RE: [ODBC] crash in LIBPQ_execute_query
>
> That seems to work.
> Thanks for the quick reply Dave.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Page [mailto:dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk]
> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 8:58 AM
> To: Scot Loach; pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Cc: Anoop Kumar
> Subject: RE: [ODBC] crash in LIBPQ_execute_query
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pgsql-odbc-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > [mailto:pgsql-odbc-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Scot Loach
> > Sent: 02 September 2005 13:12
> > To: pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > Subject: [ODBC] crash in LIBPQ_execute_query
> >
> > Some of the queries we use can be very large.
> > My code is crashing here:
> >
> > QResultClass *
> > LIBPQ_execute_query(ConnectionClass *self,char *query)
> > {
> > QResultClass *qres;
> > PGresult *pgres;
> > char *ptr;
> > char cmdbuffer[ERROR_MSG_LENGTH + 1];
> > char errbuffer[ERROR_MSG_LENGTH + 1];
> > int pos=0;
> >
> > strcpy(cmdbuffer,query);
> >
> >
> > ERROR_MSG_LENGTH is 4096, my query is larger than that.
> > What's the rationale here and how do we fix it? This works
> > fine with the old driver.
>
> Urgh. To be honest, I can't see any need to copy that string at all in
> there, so the limit is entirely unwarranted. In addition, there's code
> in there marked #ifndef USE_LIBPQ (in LIBPQ_Execute!!), and,
> it sets the
> rowcount to -1 if it can't find a space in the SQL query!
>
> I've tidied that up - patch attached. Please let me know how it goes.
>
> Regards, Dave
>