pgsql: Add comments about the need to avoid uninitialized bits in datat

Started by Tom Laneabout 15 years ago1 messagescomitters
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#1Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us

Add comments about the need to avoid uninitialized bits in datatype values.

There was already one recommendation in the documentation about writing
C functions to ensure padding bytes are zeroes, but make it stronger.

Also fix an example that was still using direct assignment to a varlena
length word, which no longer works since the varvarlena changes.

Branch
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REL9_0_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/db3cf2529304f96eabedd21f292bc661d5772aee

Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/xfunc.sgml | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++------
1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)