diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/lobj.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/lobj.sgml
index ba5674cff37058acedbb02d8b8409e83c85e6e3f..db5bc100f8fde83e5cb531e5e14416308fab9e32 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/lobj.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/lobj.sgml
@@ -69,6 +69,17 @@
access reads and writes.
</para>
+ <para>
+ The chunks stored for a large object do not have to be contiguous.
+ For example, if an application opens a new large object, seeks to offset
+ 1000000, and writes a few bytes there, this does not result in allocation
+ of 1000000 bytes worth of storage; only of chunks covering the range of
+ data bytes actually written. A read operation will, however, read out
+ zeroes for any unallocated locations preceding the last existing chunk.
+ This corresponds to the common behavior of <quote>sparsely allocated</>
+ files in <acronym>Unix</acronym> file systems.
+ </para>
+
<para>
As of <productname>PostgreSQL</> 9.0, large objects have an owner
and a set of access permissions, which can be managed using
@@ -299,11 +310,19 @@ inv_fd = lo_open(conn, inv_oid, INV_READ|INV_WRITE);
int lo_write(PGconn *conn, int fd, const char *buf, size_t len);
</synopsis>
writes <parameter>len</parameter> bytes from <parameter>buf</parameter>
- to large object descriptor <parameter>fd</>. The <parameter>fd</parameter>
- argument must have been returned by a previous
- <function>lo_open</function>. The number of bytes actually
- written is returned. In the event of an error, the return value
- is -1.
+ (which must be of size <parameter>len</parameter>) to large object
+ descriptor <parameter>fd</>. The <parameter>fd</parameter> argument must
+ have been returned by a previous <function>lo_open</function>. The
+ number of bytes actually written is returned (in the current
+ implementation, this will always equal <parameter>len</parameter> unless
+ there is an error). In the event of an error, the return value is -1.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ Although the <parameter>len</parameter> parameter is declared as
+ <type>size_t</>, this function will reject length values larger than
+ <literal>INT_MAX</>. In practice, it's best to transfer data in chunks
+ of at most a few megabytes anyway.
</para>
</sect2>
@@ -316,13 +335,22 @@ int lo_write(PGconn *conn, int fd, const char *buf, size_t len);
<synopsis>
int lo_read(PGconn *conn, int fd, char *buf, size_t len);
</synopsis>
- reads <parameter>len</parameter> bytes from large object descriptor
- <parameter>fd</parameter> into <parameter>buf</parameter>. The
- <parameter>fd</parameter> argument must have been returned by a
- previous <function>lo_open</function>. The number of bytes
- actually read is returned. In the event of an error, the return
+ reads up to <parameter>len</parameter> bytes from large object descriptor
+ <parameter>fd</parameter> into <parameter>buf</parameter> (which must be
+ of size <parameter>len</parameter>). The <parameter>fd</parameter>
+ argument must have been returned by a previous
+ <function>lo_open</function>. The number of bytes actually read is
+ returned; this will be less than <parameter>len</parameter> if the end of
+ the large object is reached first. In the event of an error, the return
value is -1.
</para>
+
+<para>
+ Although the <parameter>len</parameter> parameter is declared as
+ <type>size_t</>, this function will reject length values larger than
+ <literal>INT_MAX</>. In practice, it's best to transfer data in chunks
+ of at most a few megabytes anyway.
+</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="lo-seek">
@@ -416,7 +444,7 @@ int lo_truncate(PGcon *conn, int fd, size_t len);
<parameter>fd</parameter> argument must have been returned by a
previous <function>lo_open</function>. If <parameter>len</> is
greater than the large object's current length, the large object
- is extended with null bytes ('\0').
+ is extended to the specified length with null bytes ('\0').
On success, <function>lo_truncate</function> returns
zero. On error, the return value is -1.
</para>
@@ -426,6 +454,12 @@ int lo_truncate(PGcon *conn, int fd, size_t len);
<parameter>fd</parameter> is not changed.
</para>
+<para>
+ Although the <parameter>len</parameter> parameter is declared as
+ <type>size_t</>, <function>lo_truncate</function> will reject length
+ values larger than <literal>INT_MAX</>.
+</para>
+
<para>
<indexterm><primary>lo_truncate64</></>
When dealing with large objects that might exceed 2GB in size,
diff --git a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-lobj.c b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-lobj.c
index cf6fe3e128bb0d644b499d4db9e198fd40c907ce..ffe333608c12e13d9a62cbceafc93e6f35217420 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-lobj.c
+++ b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-lobj.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
#endif
#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <limits.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <netinet/in.h> /* for ntohl/htonl */
#include <arpa/inet.h>
@@ -155,13 +156,29 @@ lo_truncate(PGconn *conn, int fd, size_t len)
return -1;
}
+ /*
+ * Long ago, somebody thought it'd be a good idea to declare this function
+ * as taking size_t ... but the underlying backend function only accepts a
+ * signed int32 length. So throw error if the given value overflows
+ * int32. (A possible alternative is to automatically redirect the call
+ * to lo_truncate64; but if the caller wanted to rely on that backend
+ * function being available, he could have called lo_truncate64 for
+ * himself.)
+ */
+ if (len > (size_t) INT_MAX)
+ {
+ printfPQExpBuffer(&conn->errorMessage,
+ libpq_gettext("argument of lo_truncate exceeds integer range\n"));
+ return -1;
+ }
+
argv[0].isint = 1;
argv[0].len = 4;
argv[0].u.integer = fd;
argv[1].isint = 1;
argv[1].len = 4;
- argv[1].u.integer = len;
+ argv[1].u.integer = (int) len;
res = PQfn(conn, conn->lobjfuncs->fn_lo_truncate,
&retval, &result_len, 1, argv, 2);
@@ -251,13 +268,26 @@ lo_read(PGconn *conn, int fd, char *buf, size_t len)
return -1;
}
+ /*
+ * Long ago, somebody thought it'd be a good idea to declare this function
+ * as taking size_t ... but the underlying backend function only accepts a
+ * signed int32 length. So throw error if the given value overflows
+ * int32.
+ */
+ if (len > (size_t) INT_MAX)
+ {
+ printfPQExpBuffer(&conn->errorMessage,
+ libpq_gettext("argument of lo_read exceeds integer range\n"));
+ return -1;
+ }
+
argv[0].isint = 1;
argv[0].len = 4;
argv[0].u.integer = fd;
argv[1].isint = 1;
argv[1].len = 4;
- argv[1].u.integer = len;
+ argv[1].u.integer = (int) len;
res = PQfn(conn, conn->lobjfuncs->fn_lo_read,
(int *) buf, &result_len, 0, argv, 2);
@@ -293,15 +323,25 @@ lo_write(PGconn *conn, int fd, const char *buf, size_t len)
return -1;
}
- if (len <= 0)
- return 0;
+ /*
+ * Long ago, somebody thought it'd be a good idea to declare this function
+ * as taking size_t ... but the underlying backend function only accepts a
+ * signed int32 length. So throw error if the given value overflows
+ * int32.
+ */
+ if (len > (size_t) INT_MAX)
+ {
+ printfPQExpBuffer(&conn->errorMessage,
+ libpq_gettext("argument of lo_write exceeds integer range\n"));
+ return -1;
+ }
argv[0].isint = 1;
argv[0].len = 4;
argv[0].u.integer = fd;
argv[1].isint = 0;
- argv[1].len = len;
+ argv[1].len = (int) len;
argv[1].u.ptr = (int *) buf;
res = PQfn(conn, conn->lobjfuncs->fn_lo_write,