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Neil Conway wrote:
> Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com> writes:
> > And another one.
>
> This patch should fix the problem. Doesn't include my previous patch
> for repeat(). Again, somewhat off-the-cuff, so I might have missed
> something...
>
> test=# select lpad('xxxxx',1431655765,'yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy');
> ERROR: Requested length too large
> test=# select rpad('xxxxx',1431655765,'yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy');
> ERROR: Requested length too large
>
> (That's on a Unicode DB, haven't tested other encodings but AFAICT
> this fix should still work.)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neil
>
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