Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There's a bug in datetime.c when it handles errors converting text into > various date formats. It tries to avoid palloc'ing a cstring copy of the in= > put > by storing it in a stack variable instead but that means it can't handle > inputs over MAXDATELEN. So it throws an error but passes the varlena string > where the format expects a c string. Of course having to generate a c string > for the format begs the question...
Good catch. I'm hoping that all three of these functions will go away before 8.3 is out (in favor of a generic text cast capability), but we need a back-patchable fix for the released branches. So the "minimal" patch looks the best to me --- least risk of patch trouble. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster