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Re: fix ecpg core dump when there's a very long struct variable name in .pgc file

Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>

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From: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>
To: Chen Huajun <chenhj@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-11-23T13:42:48Z
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On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 06:09:20PM +0800, Chen Huajun wrote:
> When use a struct variable whose name length is very very long such as 12KB in .pgc source,
> ecpg will core dump because of buffer overflow if precompile the .pgc file.

How on earth did you run into this? :)

I absolutely agree that this is better be fixed and cjust committed the second
version of your patch.

Thanks.

Michael
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