| From: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org> |
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| To: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: backpatch of datetime fixes |
| Date: | 2002-08-21 01:18:46 |
| Message-ID: | 3D62EA76.A5A8A15C@fourpalms.org |
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Neil Conway wrote:
>
> I've backpatched Thomas's fixes for the potential buffer overruns in
> the datetime code to the REL7_2_STABLE branch. The required changes
> are pretty minimal, and the code passes the regression tests.
>
> However, I haven't yet seen a test-case that demonstrates the buffer
> overrun in 7.2 code (I originally found the problem when playing with
> datetime on 7.3-dev with integer datetimes)
I've had trouble provoking an error also, but the circumstances should
be related to having a long date/time input, especially if it has more
fields than one would expect in a valid date/time string.
- Thomas
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