On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I'm not too impressed with this bit:
>
> /* Allocate buffer; beware that off_t might be wider than size_t */
> - if (stat.st_size <= MaxAllocSize)
> + if (stat.st_size <= SIZE_MAX)
> buf = (char *) malloc(stat.st_size);
>
> because there are no, zero, not one uses of SIZE_MAX in our code today,
> and I do not see such a symbol required by the POSIX v2 spec either.
See my remarks just now. This can easily be fixed.
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Peter Geoghegan