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Fix several datatype input functions that were allowing unused bytes in their
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:53:16 +0000 (22:53 +0000)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:53:16 +0000 (22:53 +0000)
commit52441adb15a4ab4ec41e4f33d43c1f89bdffeb29
tree4c5ca25c182627a491a73e96c00bf318b2091c47
parenta0f770dbdcfc1378aab4c97f372c325d449f7612
Fix several datatype input functions that were allowing unused bytes in their
results to contain uninitialized, unpredictable values.  While this was okay
as far as the datatypes themselves were concerned, it's a problem for the
parser because occurrences of the "same" literal might not be recognized as
equal by datumIsEqual (and hence not by equal()).  It seems sufficient to fix
this in the input functions since the only critical use of equal() is in the
parser's comparisons of ORDER BY and DISTINCT expressions.
Per a trouble report from Marc Cousin.

Patch all the way back.  Interestingly, array_in did not have the bug before
8.2, which may explain why the issue went unnoticed for so long.
contrib/ltree/ltree_io.c
src/backend/utils/adt/geo_ops.c