On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 12:47:33AM -0400, Neil Conway wrote:
> I've been experimenting with pgcrypto 0.3 (distributed with
> Postgres 7.1.0), and I think I've found a bug.
>
> I compiled Pgcrypto with OpenSSL, using gcc 2.95.4 and
> OpenSSL 0.9.6a (the latest Debian 'unstable' packages).
> web=> select encode(digest('blah', 'sha1'), 'base64');
> FATAL 1: pg_encode: overflow, encode estimate too small
> pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly.
> This probably means the backend terminated abnormally
> before or while processing the request.
> The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Succeeded.
> Is this a bug? Can it be fixed?
This is a bug alright. And a silly one :)
Thanks for reporting. For standalone package apply this
patch with -p2.
pgsql-hackers: this should get into REL7_1_STABLE.
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marko
Index: contrib/pgcrypto/encode.c
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RCS file: /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot/pgsql/contrib/pgcrypto/encode.c,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 encode.c
--- contrib/pgcrypto/encode.c 2001/03/22 03:59:10 1.4
+++ contrib/pgcrypto/encode.c 2001/05/12 08:28:50
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@uintb64_enc_len(uint srclen){
- return srclen + (srclen / 3) + (srclen / (76 / 2));
+ return srclen + (srclen + 2 / 3) + (srclen / (76 / 2)) + 2;}uint
