On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> ...
> > So I think that fixing the opaque problems in 7.2.x is simply
> > impossible. Given that, the question is whether we should make a 7.2.2
> > release with fixes for the other security holes (lpad(), rpad(),
> > reverse(), and the datetime overruns). IMHO, we should.
>
> Just a minor point: can someone actually show a symptom with date/time
> problems in 7.2.x?
template1=# select version();
version
-------------------------------------------------------------
PostgreSQL 7.2.1 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC 2.96
(1 row)
template1=# select
'1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111'::date
server closed the connection unexpectedly
This probably means the server terminated abnormally
before or while processing the request.
The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Failed.
!#
ParseDateTime() isn't checking that str < MAXDATELEN -- which is the
problem you solved in the datetime.c fixes.
Gavin
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