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Re: Leakproofness of texteq()/textne()

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Date: 2019-09-13T12:14:03Z
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On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 5:19 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> However, if there is some character C that makes ICU misbehave like
> that, we are going to have problems with indexing strings containing C,
> whether we think varstr_cmp is leaky or not.  So I'm not sure that
> focusing our attention on leakiness is a helpful way to proceed.

That seems like a compelling argument to me.

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Robert Haas
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Commits

  1. Straighten out leakproofness markings on text comparison functions.