Re: Remove FATAL from pg_lzdecompress - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Remove FATAL from pg_lzdecompress
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Msg-id 27163.1205256433@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Remove FATAL from pg_lzdecompress  (Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM>)
Responses Re: Remove FATAL from pg_lzdecompress  (Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM>)
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Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM> writes:
>>> I attach patch which adds boundaries check and memory overwriting
>>> protection when compressed data are corrupted.

> Good point. Is there plan to applied also on other branch?

I wasn't planning to back-patch it.  Given the lack of field reports
of compressed-data problems, it seemed to me that the risk of breaking
something was larger than the chance of helping someone.  We could
reconsider this after the code has been in HEAD awhile, perhaps.

            regards, tom lane

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