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Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 7.2.2: Security Release

Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>

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From: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
To: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-08-24T17:53:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general 
On Saturday 24 August 2002 10:51 am, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> And what are the odds your application is going to bomb due to a buffer
> overflow before it even gets to the database.  I can see maybe with php,
> but a web form should always be length limited.

IIRC, web forms are limited to 32k in an input field of any kind.  TEXTAREA 
is, I believe, the limit.

There are other limits -- but a web browser may not be the source of the POST 
formdata.
-- 
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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