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-rw-r--r--src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
index 844b4c164d9..e807d3d0696 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c,v 1.207 2001/02/11 23:12:28 tgl Exp $
+ * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c,v 1.208 2001/02/20 01:34:40 tgl Exp $
*
* NOTES
*
@@ -1123,6 +1123,14 @@ readStartupPacket(void *arg, PacketLen len, void *pkt)
if (port->database[0] == '\0')
StrNCpy(port->database, si->user, sizeof(port->database));
+ /* Truncate given database and user names to length of a Postgres name. */
+ /* This avoids lookup failures when overlength names are given. */
+
+ if ((int) sizeof(port->database) >= NAMEDATALEN)
+ port->database[NAMEDATALEN-1] = '\0';
+ if ((int) sizeof(port->user) >= NAMEDATALEN)
+ port->user[NAMEDATALEN-1] = '\0';
+
/* Check a user name was given. */
if (port->user[0] == '\0')