"Strong, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just wondering - are any of these cases where a memcpy() would work > just as well? Or are you not sure that the source string is at least > 64 bytes in length?
In most cases, we're pretty sure that it's *not* --- it'll just be a palloc'd C string. I'm disinclined to fool with the restriction that namestrcpy zero-pad Name values, because they might end up on disk, and allowing random memory contents to get written out is ungood from a security point of view. However, it's entirely possible that it'd be a bit faster to do a MemSet followed by strlcpy than to use strncpy for zero-padding. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster