Re: crash in LIBPQ_execute_query - Mailing list pgsql-odbc

From Dave Page
Subject Re: crash in LIBPQ_execute_query
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Msg-id E7F85A1B5FF8D44C8A1AF6885BC9A0E4AC9E32@ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk
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In response to crash in LIBPQ_execute_query  ("Scot Loach" <sloach@sandvine.com>)
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No probs. I'll apply it to CVS. Thanks for testing.

/D

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scot Loach [mailto:sloach@sandvine.com]
> Sent: 02 September 2005 15:22
> To: Dave Page; pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org
> Cc: Anoop Kumar
> Subject: RE: [ODBC] crash in LIBPQ_execute_query
>
> That seems to work.
> Thanks for the quick reply Dave.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Page [mailto:dpage@vale-housing.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 8:58 AM
> To: Scot Loach; pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org
> Cc: Anoop Kumar
> Subject: RE: [ODBC] crash in LIBPQ_execute_query
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pgsql-odbc-owner@postgresql.org
> > [mailto:pgsql-odbc-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Scot Loach
> > Sent: 02 September 2005 13:12
> > To: pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org
> > Subject: [ODBC] crash in LIBPQ_execute_query
> >
> > Some of the queries we use can be very large.
> > My code is crashing here:
> >
> > QResultClass *
> > LIBPQ_execute_query(ConnectionClass *self,char *query)
> >                   {
> >         QResultClass *qres;
> >                           PGresult *pgres;
> >         char            *ptr;
> >         char            cmdbuffer[ERROR_MSG_LENGTH + 1];
> >     char                errbuffer[ERROR_MSG_LENGTH + 1];
> >                       int         pos=0;
> >
> >         strcpy(cmdbuffer,query);
> >
> >
> > ERROR_MSG_LENGTH is 4096, my query is larger than that.
> > What's the rationale here and how do we fix it?  This works
> > fine with the old driver.
>
> Urgh. To be honest, I can't see any need to copy that string at all in
> there, so the limit is entirely unwarranted. In addition, there's code
> in there marked #ifndef USE_LIBPQ (in LIBPQ_Execute!!), and,
> it sets the
> rowcount to -1 if it can't find a space in the SQL query!
>
> I've tidied that up - patch attached. Please let me know how it goes.
>
> Regards, Dave
>

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