Re: 7.2.1 backend crash (convert_string_datum, locale)

Tom Lane wrote:
> Mats Lofkvist <mal@algonet.se> writes:
> > When testing postgres 7.2.1 on a sparc/solaris8 box with
> > --enable-locale --enable-multibyte I get a crash in
> > convert_string_datum.
>
> This smells like a problem that we chased down awhile back, that
> snprintf on Solaris is broken (it will write past the end of the
> specified buffer length, thus corrupting adjacent data).
>
> Andrew, I think that was your test case we found it on.  Do you
> recall if a fix is available from Sun?

Yes, I remember this too.  It was specifically multibyte-related.

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