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From: Mario González Troncoso <[email protected]>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Possible replace of strncpy on xactdesc.c
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2026 18:26:57 -0400
Message-ID: <CAFsReFWd5dmy16S5Umsn=peurgpiph0fd4H1BmLtbrMzC_OvPA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Mon, 6 Jul 2026 at 10:38, Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> As a general rule it's a good idea to replace strncpy with strlcpy.
>
> > The other functions that are inside the file already use strlcpy() so
> > maybe the use of current strncpy() on xactdesc.c is just code that
> > comes from the refactor itself.
>
> It was introduced in 1eb6d6527aae in twophase.c and then moved to xaxtdesc.c in
> the above mentioned commit.
>
> > I'll send a proper patch once some feedback is received but at least
> > it's compiling and passing local tests.
>
> Sounds good, please send a patch.
>

Great. Sending it now after rebasing from master and passing local
tests (long live cirrus CI).

I added this to the commitfest as well
https://commitfest.postgresql.org/patch/6989/

>


-- 
Mario Gonzalez
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