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.

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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
> 

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