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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Charles Seaton <cseaton@stccmop.org>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: libpq query length limit
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:50:27 -0400
Message-ID: <1111.1207666227@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47F963C1.7070100@stccmop.org>
References: <47F963C1.7070100@stccmop.org>

Charles Seaton <cseaton@stccmop.org> writes:
> I am using libpq to access a PostgreSQL 8.2.7 database.
> I am encountering segfault errors when the query length exceeds some 
> value greater than 633 characters and less than 2492 characters. The 
> database log shows the message
> LOG:  08P01: unexpected EOF on client connection

> The query that causes problems through libpq can be run directly in psql 
> without a problem.

Almost certainly, this is a bug within the code calling libpq, and not
in libpq itself.  Many people routinely use queries much longer than
that ...

			regards, tom lane



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