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Re: [HACKERS] 【ECPG】strncpy functiondoes not set the end character '\0' - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Meskes
Subject Re: [HACKERS] 【ECPG】strncpy functiondoes not set the end character '\0'
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Msg-id 1504795822.3276.291.camel@postgresql.org
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] 【ECPG】strncpy function does not set the end character '\0'  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Oh.  If there's actually a standard somewhere that says it's not
> null-terminated, then code that is expecting it to be so is just
> wrong.  No need to change anything in ecpg, IMO.

As I said I haven't checked if this detail is actually in there, but I
guess it was because there is a reason why we, and other databases,
define it that way.

Michael
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