Re: 7.2.1 backend crash (convert_string_datum, locale) - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: 7.2.1 backend crash (convert_string_datum, locale)
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Msg-id 6446.1026443742@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to 7.2.1 backend crash (convert_string_datum, locale)  (Mats Lofkvist <mal@algonet.se>)
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Re: 7.2.1 backend crash (convert_string_datum, locale)
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Mats Lofkvist <mal@algonet.se> writes:
> When testing postgres 7.2.1 on a sparc/solaris8 box with
> --enable-locale --enable-multibyte I get a crash in
> convert_string_datum.

This smells like a problem that we chased down awhile back, that
snprintf on Solaris is broken (it will write past the end of the
specified buffer length, thus corrupting adjacent data).

Andrew, I think that was your test case we found it on.  Do you
recall if a fix is available from Sun?

            regards, tom lane

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