From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 19:37:48 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Noted with versions 7.0.3, 7.1.3, and 7.2.1:
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Noted with versions 7.0.3, 7.1.3, and 7.2.1:

The psql interpreter becomes unstable if variable substitutions
are used.  The debugger GDB was unable to help however mpatrol
reports that the sprintf at mainloop.c:389 is steping one byte
farther than the allocation.

William K. Volkman
---

diff --git a/src/bin/psql/mainloop.c b/src/bin/psql/mainloop.c
index a9d7e453ab..ca5e36a426 100644
--- a/src/bin/psql/mainloop.c
+++ b/src/bin/psql/mainloop.c
@@ -378,7 +378,8 @@ MainLoop(FILE *source)
 				{
 					out_length = strlen(value);
 
-					new = malloc(len + out_length - (1 + in_length) + 1);
+					/* Allow for 'after' character also 2002-05-27 */
+					new = malloc(len + out_length - (1 + in_length) + 1 + 1);
 					if (!new)
 					{
 						psql_error("out of memory\n");