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Re: patch: Use pg_mbcliplen for truncation in text-to-name conversion

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Karl Schnaitter <karlsch@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-05-25T20:47:41Z
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Karl Schnaitter <karlsch@gmail.com> writes:
> The text_name function was truncating its input string to the first
> NAMEDATALEN-1 bytes, which is wrong if the string has multi-byte
> characters. This patch changes it to use pg_mbcliplen, following
> the namein function.

Good catch, but poking around I note that bpchar_name has the same
disease.  Will fix, thanks for the report!

			regards, tom lane