Re: Backend often crashing

WOW,
Open source at it's best. A guy has a problem, goes through all the functions,
delivers the suspects, and another open source worker gets it fixed, in less
than 24 hours.
What a way of life :-)

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Guido Notari" <gnotari(at)linkgroup(dot)it> writes:
>
>>I replaced the occurences of to_ascii with a custum function that calls
>>to_ascii only on the result of a translate, which in turn converts some
>>strange (russian?) characters to plain ascii.
>
>
> Ooohhh ... looking at the source code shows that to_ascii processes one
> byte too many, which would lead to clobbering the next byte of memory,
> which would quite possibly cause your problem.
>
> In 7.2.4, the bug is at line 114 of src/backend/utils/adt/ascii.c:
>
> for (x = src; x <= src_end; x++)
>
> should be
>
> for (x = src; x < src_end; x++)
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
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