Re: FUNC_MAX_ARGS benchmarks
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Neil Conway <nconway@klamath.dyndns.org>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-08-14T05:49:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Change made. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: > > In fact, I now see that there was no such problem. I do wonder why the > > 32 is there, though? Shouldn't it be 6 or something like that? > > Whoever it was was too lazy to count accurately ;-) > > I guess I'd vote for changing the code to be > > sys = malloc(strlen(editorName) + strlen(fname) + 10 + 1); > if (!sys) > return false; > sprintf(sys, "exec '%s' '%s'", editorName, fname); > > (note the added quotes to provide a little protection against spaces > and such). Then it's perfectly obvious what the calculation is doing. > I don't care about wasting 20-some bytes, but confusing readers of the > code is worth avoiding. > > regards, tom lane > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073