Re: Replace remaining StrNCpy() by strlcpy()

On 2020-08-08 18:09, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> I removed namecpy() altogether because you can just use struct assignment.
>
> Makes sense, and I notice it was unused anyway.
>
> v3 passes eyeball examination (I didn't bother running tests), with
> only one remaining nit: the proposed commit message says
>
> They are equivalent,
>
> which per this thread is incorrect. Somebody might possibly refer to this
> commit for guidance in updating third-party code, so I don't think we want
> to leave a misleading claim here. Perhaps something like
>
> They are equivalent, except that StrNCpy zero-fills the entire
> destination buffer instead of providing just one trailing zero.
> For all but a tiny number of callers, that's just overhead rather
> than being desirable.

Committed with that change.

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