Re: table schema causes crash - Mailing list pgsql-general

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Msg-id 3617.63.226.186.156.1040457481.squirrel@www.minnesota.com
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In response to Re: table schema causes crash  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> While studying this I noticed a number of potential buffer overruns in
> the 7.2.3 version of describeTableDetails().  They were mostly fixed
> already in 7.3, and I just committed a fix for one more.  However, I do
> not believe that any of these overruns could have occurred in the
> example you give, so there's still something fishy going on.  On the
> whole, I'd still bet that it's a 64-bit-platform issue.  But where? Good
> luck digging...

I compiled 7.3 and ran it on port 5454 while 7.2.3 was using 5432. On 7.3
the table was created and displayed normally without a segmentation fault.

Apparantly the bug fixes you committed between 7.2.3 and 7.3 fixed the
problem. Thank you.



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