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To: "Scott Muir" <wsmuir@islandnet.com>
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Subject: Re: SPI - couple things (7.0.2) 
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Comments: In-reply-to "Scott Muir" <wsmuir@islandnet.com>
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 17:12:34 -0500
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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"Scott Muir" <wsmuir@islandnet.com> writes:
> Last night, I attempted to access the data of several TEXT parameters into a
> 'language 'C'' function I've created and got an interesting result...  on of
> the strings gets a little garbled on the end...  I haven't attempted to
> debug it yet (isoloate the behaviour; gave up; went home) but I"m wondering
> if it can be assumed that the (char *) part of the TEXT struct (VARDATA) has
> been terminated at the length specified by the (VARLEN())?? part.

TEXT data is guaranteed *not* to be null terminated.  If you are
writing code that expects it to be, you will have lots of problems.

			regards, tom lane