Re: Improving overflow checks when adding tuple to PGresult Re: [GENERAL] Retrieving query results

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 4:24 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Michael Paquier
>> <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> Attached are two patches:
>>> 1) 0001 refactors the code around pqAddTuple to be able to handle
>>> error messages and assign them in PQsetvalue particularly.
>>> 2) 0002 adds sanity checks in pqAddTuple for overflows, maximizing the
>>> size of what is allocated to INT_MAX but now more.
>
> I've pushed these (as one commit) with some adjustments.

Thanks!

> Mainly,
> I changed PQsetvalue to report failure messages with PQinternalNotice,
> which is what already happens inside check_field_number() for the case
> of an out-of-range field number. It's possible that storing the
> message into the PGresult in addition would be worth doing, but I'm
> unconvinced about that --- we certainly haven't had any field requests
> for it.

OK, fine for me.
--
Michael