Re: [HACKERS] Incautious handling of overlength identifiers

On 12/23/2016 12:44 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
>> So what to do?  We could run around and fix these individual cases
>> and call it good, but if we do, I will bet a very fine dinner that
>> more such errors will sneak in before long.  Seems like we need a
>> coding convention that discourages just randomly treating a C string
>> as a valid value of type NAME.  Not sure how to get there though.
>
> An alternative worth considering, especially for the back branches,
> is simply to remove the Assert in hashname().  That would give us
> the behavior that non-developers see anyway, which is that these
> functions always fail to match overlength names, whether or not
> the names would have matched after truncation.  Trying to apply
> truncation more consistently could be left as an improvement
> project for later.

That sounds reasonable to me.

Joe

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