On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > On 2014-06-03 23:19:37 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> >> -                    if (sscanf(copybuf + 124, "%11o",
> &current_len_left) != 1)
> >> +                    if (sscanf(copybuf + 124, "%11lo",
> &current_len_left) != 1)
>
> > That's probably not going to work on 32bit platforms or windows where
> > you might need to use ll instead of l as a prefix. Also notice that
> > apparently (c.f. 9d7ded0f4277f5c0063eca8e871a34e2355a8371) sscanf can't
> > reliably be used for 64bit input :(. That pretty much sucks...
>
> There's a far bigger problem there, which is if we're afraid that
> current_len_left might exceed 4GB then what is it exactly that guarantees
> it'll fit in an 11-digit field?


Well, we will only write 11 digits in there, that's when we read it. But
print_val() on the server side should probably have an overflow check
there, which it doesn't. It's going to write some strange values int here
if it overflows..

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