Re: Oops - BF:Mastodon just died

[Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>]

Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>   
> > > Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> > >       
> > > > For now I'm going try to fix it by changing it to:
> > > > next unless $pieces[0] =~/^[A-F0-9]{3}$/;
> > > >         
>
>   
> > Yeah, nice catch. Wouldn't surprise me if we actually had this problem
> > before, just that the dropped symbols were not actually used by our own
> > modules. I notice the export count jumped to 5226...
> >     
>
> I was wondering where the count would go.
>
> It strikes me that the pattern needs to be {3,} or maybe just +.
> I dunno what this column is measuring, but if we are past 0xA00
> then surely 0x1000 is not far away.
>
>   

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b842y285(VS.71).aspx appears to 
suggest that the size of the field is fixed.

But who knows?

cheers

andrew