Re: report expected contrecord size

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-09-03T22:17:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> Well, the intention there is to cast the first operand (which is uint32)
> so that it turns into signed 64-bits; the subtraction then occurs in 64
> bit arithmetic normally.  If I let the subtraction occur in 32-bit width
> unsigned, the result might overflow 32 bits.

Uh ... is it really possible for gotlen to be more than total_len?
(I've not looked at the surrounding code here, but that seems weird.)

			regards, tom lane



Commits

  1. Report expected contrecord length on mismatch