On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:47 AM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> wrote:
> I also noticed that I failed to reset the last_returned strcoll()
> cache variable as part of an abbreviation call, despite the fact that
> tapesort may freely interleave conversions with comparisons, while
> reusing buf1 and buf2 both as scratch space for strxfrm() blobs, as
> well as for storing strings to be compared with strcoll(). I suggest
> that the attached patch also be applied to fix this issue.
I think that I jumped the gun with this fix, because theoretically you
can still get the same problem in the opposite direction -- an
original string treated as a strxfrm() blob when the cache is
consulted.
I'll consider a more comprehensive fix.
--
Peter Geoghegan
