Work around buggy strxfrm() present in some Solaris releases.

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c
index a02d7efe7dc580d9fbe4392edaa13956a83cb611..26d585b99c31941a3d8147d5d948efe63d49ec67 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *   $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c,v 1.119.2.4 2003/04/16 04:38:05 tgl Exp $
+ *   $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c,v 1.119.2.5 2003/07/17 20:52:42 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -2313,9 +2313,6 @@ static unsigned char *
 convert_string_datum(Datum value, Oid typid)
 {
    char       *val;
-   char       *xfrmstr;
-   size_t      xfrmsize;
-   size_t      xfrmlen;
 
    switch (typid)
    {
@@ -2355,17 +2352,21 @@ convert_string_datum(Datum value, Oid typid)
 
    if (!lc_collate_is_c())
    {
-       /* Guess that transformed string is not much bigger than original */
-       xfrmsize = strlen(val) + 32;    /* arbitrary pad value here... */
-       xfrmstr = (char *) palloc(xfrmsize);
-       xfrmlen = strxfrm(xfrmstr, val, xfrmsize);
-       if (xfrmlen >= xfrmsize)
-       {
-           /* Oops, didn't make it */
-           pfree(xfrmstr);
-           xfrmstr = (char *) palloc(xfrmlen + 1);
-           xfrmlen = strxfrm(xfrmstr, val, xfrmlen + 1);
-       }
+       char       *xfrmstr;
+       size_t      xfrmlen;
+       size_t      xfrmlen2;
+
+       /*
+        * Note: originally we guessed at a suitable output buffer size,
+        * and only needed to call strxfrm twice if our guess was too small.
+        * However, it seems that some versions of Solaris have buggy
+        * strxfrm that can write past the specified buffer length in that
+        * scenario.  So, do it the dumb way for portability.
+        */
+       xfrmlen = strxfrm(NULL, val, 0);
+       xfrmstr = (char *) palloc(xfrmlen + 1);
+       xfrmlen2 = strxfrm(xfrmstr, val, xfrmlen + 1);
+       Assert(xfrmlen2 == xfrmlen);
        pfree(val);
        val = xfrmstr;
    }