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Commit b4b06931 authored by Tom Lane's avatar Tom Lane
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Avoid possibly-unsafe use of Windows' FormatMessage() function.

Whenever this function is used with the FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM flag,
it's good practice to include FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS as well.
Otherwise, if the message contains any %n insertion markers, the function
will try to fetch argument strings to substitute --- which we are not
passing, possibly leading to a crash.  This is exactly analogous to the
rule about not giving printf() a format string you're not in control of.

Noted and patched by Christian Ullrich.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
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