Karel Zak wrote: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 11:45:18PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Karel, do you plan to use pstrndup for some purpose? I assume so. > > I think PostgreSQL should supports basic operation with > allocation/strings if it's open for users' C functions and we expect > our own memory system usage. > > > I am not familiar with strndup. If the spec is like strncpy, I would > > vote against including it ... strncpy is so broken that we had to invent > > our own variant ... > > POSIX strncpy() is different, a result from strncpy needn't be zero > terminated. You're right it's horrible function. > > The result of strndup() is always zero terminated. It's more safe and > strndup() is binary safe because it doesn't check something in input > string. The pstrndup() is based on PostgreSQL memory managment.
Can you find places to use this function our backend? Seems that should be part of the patch. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
