On 15.06.22 19:08, Robert Haas wrote:
On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 2:51 AM Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentr...@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
We have this problem of long file names being silently truncated all
over the source code. Instead of equipping each one of them with a
length check, why don't we get rid of the fixed-size buffers and
allocate dynamically, as in the attached patch.
I've always wondered why we rely on MAXPGPATH instead of dynamic
allocation. It seems pretty lame.
I think it came in before we had extensible string buffers APIs.
