Return-Path: owner-postman Received: from localhost.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.3) with SMTP id JAA05200 for postgres-redist; Thu, 5 Jan 1995 09:12:25 -0800 Resent-From: POSTGRES mailing list Resent-Message-Id: <199501051712.JAA05200@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: owner-postman@postgres.Berkeley.EDU X-Return-Path: owner-postman Received: from faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU (faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.37.53]) by nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.3) with ESMTP id JAA05190 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 1995 09:12:25 -0800 Received: from localhost.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.1B) with SMTP id JAA18330; Thu, 5 Jan 1995 09:12:22 -0800 Message-Id: <199501051712.JAA18330@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU> X-Authentication-Warning: faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU: Host localhost.Berkeley.EDU didn't use HELO protocol From: aoki@cs.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki) To: Xinguo Wei Cc: postgres Subject: Re: Can't use GetAttributeByName for text type.. Reply-To: aoki@cs.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki) In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 5 Jan 1995 00:54:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 05 Jan 95 09:12:17 -0800 X-Sender: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU Resent-To: postgres-redist@postgres.Berkeley.EDU X-Mts: smtp Resent-Date: Thu, 05 Jan 95 09:12:25 -0800 Resent-XMts: smtp Xinguo Wei writes: > char name[4]; > strcpy(name,GetAttributeByName(t,"graphic_model", &isnull)); "text" is not a C string. "text" is struct varlena { int32 vl_len; char vl_dat[1]; }; [...] typedef struct varlena text; the data is not NUL-delimited. (this is not particularly safe code in any case -- what happens if graphic_model is null?) -- Paul M. Aoki | University of California at Berkeley aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU | Dept. of EECS, Computer Science Division (#1776) | Berkeley, CA 94720-1776 ============================================================================== To add/remove yourself to/from the POSTGRES mailing list: send mail with the subject line ADD or DEL to "postgres-request@postgres.Berkeley.EDU". If this fails, send mail to "post_questions@postgres.Berkeley.EDU" and a human will deal with it. DO NOT post to the "postgres" mailing list. ============================================================================== URL: http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres/