Subject: [HACKERS] linux/alpha patches
These patches lay the groundwork for a Linux/Alpha port. The port doesn't
actually work unless you tweak the linker to put all the pointers in the
first 32 bits of the address space, but it's at least a start. It
implements the test-and-set instruction in Alpha assembly, and also fixes
a lot of pointer-to-integer conversions, which is probably good anyway.
gmake of the code without interruption.
There's also some tidy-up of the MAXPATHLEN stuff based on the assumption that
all supported platforms have MAXPATHLEN defined in <sys/param.h>.
(The only unknowns for the above are AIX and IRIX5.)
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
datum.c: In function `DatumGetSize':
datum.c:57: warning: unsigned value >= 0 is always 1
gmake[3]: *** [datum.o] Error 1
There was:
if (byVal) {
if (len >= 0 && len <= sizeof(Datum)) {
but len has type Size (unsigned int) and so now there is:
if (byVal) {
if (len <= sizeof(Datum)) {
When an acl item is added or updated the new entry is deleted if it has no
permissions and the acl array is shrinked. This is is done by decrementing
the number of items without updating the corresponding array size.
The array with the incorrect size is later read by pg_aclcheck and the entry
count is used to allocate a new array while the array size is used to copy
the old one. This causes a memory corruption and a backend crash.
This happens only to normal user as the administrator bypasses acl checks.
Massimo Dal Zotto
* Wrote max(date) and min(date) aggregates
* Wrote operator "-" for date; date - date yields number of days
difference
* Wrote operator+(date,int) and operator-(date,int); the int is the
number of days. Each operator returns a new date.
By: Tom Tromey <tromey@creche.cygnus.com>
The comparison routines for text and char data type give incorrect results
if the input data contains characters greater than 127. As these routines
perform the comparison using signed char variables all character codes
greater than 127 are interpreted as less than 0. These codes are used to
encode the iso8859 char sets.
The other text-like data types seem to work as expected as they use unsigned
chars in comparisons.
Submitted by: Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>
conditions are always met. The patch can be applied to any version
of Postgres95 from 1.02 to 1.05. After applying the patch, queries
using indices on bpchar and varchar fields should (hopefully ;-) )
always return the same tuple set regardless to the fact whether
indices are used or not.
Submitted by: Gerhard Reithofer <tbr_laa@AON.AT>
