Tom Lane wrote: > Patrick Welche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > With today's CVS code (originally noticed with 8.2beta3), on a PC where > > INT_MAX=0x7FFFFFFF=2147483647 > > > postgres=# select to_char(2147483648,'999,999,999'); > > WARNING: detected write past chunk end in ExprContext 0x845509c > > WARNING: detected write past chunk end in ExprContext 0x845509c > > Yech ... it's scribbling on the output of int8out, which is bad enough, > but it's assuming that buffer will be long enough when it demonstrably > isn't. > > Some days I think we ought to throw out formatting.c and rewrite it from > scratch; it's probably the most poorly-coded module in all of Postgres.
Agreed from personal experience. I am in there wacking it around it seems every release. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
