Small timezone bug fixed
От
Jeroen van Vianen
Тема
Small timezone bug fixed
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4.2.0.58.19991208174034.00955220@mail.design.nl
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Small timezone bug fixed Jeroen van Vianen <jeroen@design.nl>
Re: [HACKERS] Small timezone bug fixed Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Hi, I was able to crash postgres 6.5.3 when I did an 'alter user' command. After I started a debugger I found the problem in the timezone handling of datetime (my Linux box lost its timezone information, that's how the problem occurred). Only 7 bytes are reserved for the timezone, without checking for boundaries. Attached is a patch that fixes this problem and emits a NOTICE if a timezone is encountered that is longer than MAXTZLEN bytes, like this: template1=# alter user postgres with password postgres; NOTICE: Invalid timezone 'Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page' NOTICE: Invalid timezone 'Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page' ALTER USER I don't know whether the timezone should be reset to some predefined constant (like "GMT") if an error like this occurs. This patch at least directs the user in a general direction that something is wrong with his setup. Cheers, Jeroen
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