On ons, 2009-11-18 at 06:46 -0500, Kris Jurka wrote: > Looking at how byteain detects whether the input it is passed is the new > hex format escape or the old octal escape, it uses: > > char *inputText = PG_GETARG_CSTRING(0); > if (inputText[0] == '\\' && inputText[1] == 'x') > > Doesn't this read off the end of inputText in the case of "SELECT > ''::bytea", or is there some padding happening somewhere that makes this > legal?
In case of ''::bytea, the inputText is "" as a C string, and so inputText[0] == '\0' and the second test is not executed. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
