Re: psql and bytea - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Féliciano Matias
Subject Re: psql and bytea
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Msg-id 1055226052.6253.11.camel@one.myworld
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In response to Re: psql and bytea  (Féliciano Matias <feliciano.matias@free.fr>)
Responses Re: psql and bytea  (Dennis Gearon <gearond@cvc.net>)
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Le ven 16/05/2003 à 06:56, Féliciano Matias a écrit :

> > All of this is used with postgresql 7.3.2 shipped with Red Hat Linux 9

> [...]

> I found the problem. It's bug in sprintf()
> ===============================================
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <string.h>
> #define SIZE (1024*70000)
> int main(void) {
>     char * s = malloc(SIZE) ;
>     char * d = malloc(SIZE) ;
>     memset(s, 'a', SIZE-1) ;
>     d[SIZE-1] = '\0' ;
>     sprintf(d,"%s",s) ;
>     printf("%zi\n", strlen(d)) ;
>     return 0 ;
> }
> ===============================================
> $ ./a.out
> 67108863    (2^26-1)

> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90987

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------- Additional Comments From drepper@redhat.com  2003-06-09 23:22 -------
The current glibc CVS code has been changed to not have this liimtation anymore.

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Féliciano Matias <feliciano.matias@free.fr>

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