Em seg., 1 de jul. de 2024 às 16:20, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> escreveu:
> On 1 Jul 2024, at 21:15, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote: > On 2024-Jul-01, Ranier Vilela wrote:
>>> - char name[MAXPGPATH + 1]; >>> + char name[MAXPGPATH];/* backup label name */ >>> >>> With the introduced use of strlcpy, why do we need to change this field? >>> >> The part about being the only reference in the entire code that uses >> MAXPGPATH + 1. > > The bit I don't understand about this discussion is what will happen > with users that currently have exactly 1024 chars in backup names today. > With this change, we'll be truncating their names to 1023 chars instead. > Why would they feel that such change is welcome?
That's precisely what I was getting at. Maybe it makes sense to change, maybe not, but that's not for this patch to decide as that's a different discussion from using safe string copying API's.
Ok, this is not material for the proposal and can be considered unrelated.
