Re: pg_dump / copy bugs with "big lines" ?

    Tomas Vondra wrote:

> A few minor comments regarding the patch:
>
> 1) CopyStartSend seems pretty pointless - It only has one function call
> in it, and is called on exactly one place (and all other places simply
> call allowLongStringInfo directly). I'd get rid of this function and
> replace the call in CopyOneRowTo(() with allowLongStringInfo().
>
> 2) allowlong seems awkward, allowLong or allow_long would be better
>
> 3) Why does resetStringInfo reset the allowLong flag? Are there any
> cases when we want/need to forget the flag value? I don't think so, so
> let's simply not reset it and get rid of the allowLongStringInfo()
> calls. Maybe it'd be better to invent a new makeLongStringInfo() method
> instead, which would make it clear that the flag value is permanent.
>
> 4) HandleParallelMessage needs a tweak, as it uses msg->len in a log
> message, but with '%d' and not '%ld' (as needed after changing the type
> to Size).
>
> 5) The comment at allowLongStringInfo talks about allocLongStringInfo
> (i.e. wrong function name).

Here's an updated patch. Compared to the previous version:

- removed CopyStartSend (per comment #1 in review)

- renamed flag to allow_long (comment #2)

- resetStringInfo no longer resets the flag (comment #3).

- allowLongStringInfo() is removed (comment #3 and #5),
makeLongStringInfo() and initLongStringInfo() are provided
instead, as alternatives to makeStringInfo() and initStringInfo().

- StringInfoData.len is back to int type, 2GB max.
(addresses comment #4 incidentally).
This is safer because  many routines peeking
into StringInfoData use int for offsets into the buffer,
for instance most of the stuff in backend/libpq/pqformat.c
Altough these routines are not supposed to be called on long
buffers, this assertion was not enforced in the code, and
with a 64-bit length effectively over 2GB, they would misbehave
pretty badly.


Best regards,
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Daniel Vérité
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