> On 26 Aug 2021, at 16:59, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> On 26.08.21 10:40, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> Wouldn’t the difference in possible error messages in upper/lower be able to
>> leak whether the input is ascii or wide chars, and/or the collation?
>
> Yeah, but there aren't any error messages that relate to the argument string, if you look through the code. There
isn'tany "could not find lower case equivalent of %s" or anything like that.
Correct. My reading of "It reveals no information about its arguments other
than by its return value” was that errormessages indicating different code-
paths based on argument structure weren't allowed. That might have been a bit
too lawyery interpretation though.
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