ncm@zembu.com (Nathan Myers) writes:
> Thus, the original code is OK, except probably the literal "23"
> in place of what should be a meaningful symbolic constant, or
> (at least!) sizeof(buf) - 1.
No, the original code is NOT ok. Read the man page again. As the
code stood, the only null that ever got written to the buffer was the
one installed in buf[23]. The only reason it appeared to work at all
was that buf would start out all zeroes --- but after one or more uses
it's not all zeroes anymore. See the bug report that started the
thread ...
> BTW, that static buffer in PGoidStatus is likely to upset threaded
> client code...
Yeah, we know. The routine is deprecated now because of that.
regards, tom lane