
in a COPY error message. It seems that glibc gets indigestion if it is asked to truncate strings that contain invalid UTF-8 encoding sequences. vsnprintf will return -1 in such cases, leading to looping and eventual memory overflow in elog.c. Instead use our own, more robust pg_mbcliplen routine. I believe this problem accounts for several recent reports of unexpected 'out of memory' errors during COPY IN.
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