Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> When run in debug mode, the runtime for msvc will *zero-pad the entire
> buffer* in a strncpy() call. This in itself is not bad (just slow), but it
> shows a rather bad bug in libpq.
[squint] That is the specified behavior of strncpy on every platform,
not only msvc. If there's a bug here why didn't we notice it long ago?
> Given this, I'll go ahead and fix fe-connect to support PQExpBuffers,
> unless there are any objections.
I'm not against that, but I question what bug you've really found.
regards, tom lane
