Re: 7.2.1 backend crash (convert_string_datum, locale)

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?

            regards, tom lane