On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 2:51 AM Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> We have this problem of long file names being silently truncated all
> over the source code. Instead of equipping each one of them with a
> length check, why don't we get rid of the fixed-size buffers and
> allocate dynamically, as in the attached patch.
I've always wondered why we rely on MAXPGPATH instead of dynamic
allocation. It seems pretty lame.
I don't know how much we gain by fixing one place and not all the
others, but maybe it would set a trend.
--
Robert Haas
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