Re: table schema causes crash
Thomas T. Thai <tom@minnesota.com>
From: <tom@minnesota.com>
To: <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-12-21T07:58:01Z
Lists: pgsql-general
> While studying this I noticed a number of potential buffer overruns in > the 7.2.3 version of describeTableDetails(). They were mostly fixed > already in 7.3, and I just committed a fix for one more. However, I do > not believe that any of these overruns could have occurred in the > example you give, so there's still something fishy going on. On the > whole, I'd still bet that it's a 64-bit-platform issue. But where? Good > luck digging... I compiled 7.3 and ran it on port 5454 while 7.2.3 was using 5432. On 7.3 the table was created and displayed normally without a segmentation fault. Apparantly the bug fixes you committed between 7.2.3 and 7.3 fixed the problem. Thank you.