Re: write past chunk end in ExprContext / to_char

Tom Lane wrote:
> Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk> 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.

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