1010 *
1111 *
1212 * IDENTIFICATION
13- * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c,v 1.17 1996/10/28 09:05:29 bryanh Exp $
13+ * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c,v 1.18 1996/10/29 21:51:13 bryanh Exp $
1414 *
1515 * NOTES
1616 *
@@ -663,13 +663,19 @@ static void
663663send_error_reply (Port * port ,const char * errormsg )
664664{
665665int rc ;/* return code from sendto */
666+ char * reply ;
667+ /* The literal reply string we put into the socket. This is a pointer
668+ to storage we malloc.
669+ */
666670char reply [201 ];
667671const struct linger linger_parm = {true,LINGER_TIME };
668672/* A parameter for setsockopt() that tells it to have close() block for
669673 a while waiting for the frontend to read its outstanding messages.
670674 */
671675
672- snprintf (reply ,sizeof (reply ),"E%s" ,errormsg );
676+ reply = malloc (strlen (errormsg )+ 10 );
677+
678+ sprintf (reply ,"E%s" ,errormsg );
673679
674680rc = send (port -> sock , (Addr )reply ,strlen (reply )+ 1 ,/* flags */ 0 );
675681if (rc < 0 )
@@ -683,7 +689,8 @@ send_error_reply(Port *port, const char *errormsg)
683689"Only partial error reply sent to front end.\n" ,
684690progname );
685691
686- /* Now we have to make sure frontend has a chance to see what we
692+ free (reply );
693+ /* Now we have to make sure frontend has a chance to see what we
687694 just wrote.
688695 */
689696rc = setsockopt (port -> sock ,SOL_SOCKET ,SO_LINGER ,
