Re: Faster StrNCpy

Tom,
Let us know when you've added strlcpy () and we'll be happy to run some tests on the new code.
David

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From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org on behalf of Tom Lane
Sent: Tue 9/26/2006 7:25 PM
To: josh@agliodbs.com
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Neil Conway; Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Faster StrNCpy



Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> What I'd like to do immediately is put in strlcpy() and hit the two or
>> three places I think are performance-relevant.

> Immediately?  Presumably you mean for 8.3?

No, I mean now.  This is a performance bug and it's still open season on
bugs.  If we were close to having a release-candidate version, I'd hold
off, but the above proposal seems sufficiently low-risk for the current
stage of the cycle.
                       regards, tom lane

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