During some development on encoding-related parts of postgres I stumbled over the new length-checking-code in
common/hex.c/pg_hex_encode.
Differently when comparing it to all versions before the output-buffer-length is checked during encoding of every
individualsource byte.
This may impose quite a regression when using pg_dump on databases with many/big bytea or lo columns.
Because all criteria to check buffer-length are known in advance of encoding (srclen and destlen) I propose doing the
checkonly once before starting the while-loop.
Please find the attached patch for pg14 and master, older versions did not have this behavior.
Tested on pg14-beta3, but applies also on master.
PS: This is my very first patch, I am in no way an experienced C-developer and don't have a smoothly running
developmentenvironment or experience yet. (originally mostly dealing with postgres on Windows).
If it seems useful somebody could enter it as an open item / resolved item for pg14 after beta 3.
Thanks for looking!
Hans Buschmann
