On 2013-02-17 15:10:35 +0000, Greg Stark wrote: > Peter G is sitting near me and reminded me that this issue came up in the > past. Iirc the conclusion then is that we're calling memcpy where the > source and destination pointers are sometimes identical. Tom decided there > was really no realistic architecture where that wouldn't work.
I am not so convinced that that is safe if libc turns that into some optimized string instructions or even PCMPSTR... > We're not calling it on overlapping nonidentical pointers. Yup, the backtrace shows that... Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
