Re: PG_RETURN_TEXT_P crash server process

You have true. When I modify code on

 long ma = ((*saved_chars + l + VARHDRSZ) / page_size + 1) * page_size;
 *allocated_free = ma - *saved_chars - VARHDRSZ;

my function works well. Thank you wery much. One night I lost with this
:->

On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> Pavel Stehule <stehule@kix.fsv.cvut.cz> writes:
> > I found some problem with PG_RETURN_TEXT_P.
>
> Fix your code to not scribble on memory that doesn't belong to it,
> and all will be well.  I can see at least two buffer-overrun bugs,
> and there may be more:
>
>       txtn = (text *) palloc (ma);    -- forgot to add VARHDRSZ
>
>   strcpy (*str_pointer, str);        -- copies one byte too many
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
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