Re: fix ecpg core dump when there's a very long struct variable name in .pgc file

From: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Chen Huajun <chenhj(at)cn(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: fix ecpg core dump when there's a very long struct variable name in .pgc file
Date: 2012-11-23 13:42:48
Message-ID: 20121123134248.GA32440@feivel.credativ.lan
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On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 06:09:20PM +0800, Chen Huajun wrote:
> When use a struct variable whose name length is very very long such as 12KB in .pgc source,
> ecpg will core dump because of buffer overflow if precompile the .pgc file.

How on earth did you run into this? :)

I absolutely agree that this is better be fixed and cjust committed the second
version of your patch.

Thanks.

Michael
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