I wrote: > I assume that's because it can be certain at compile time that, since > both buff and buff2 are local, nothing else is going to modify the > source string (without some stack smashing, anyway). Ugh. Of course, they're not local: they're malloc'd; however it's still reasonable to assume that (since the pointers aren't passed anywhere) the buffers are untouched elsewhere, unless other threads are misbehaving. Geoff -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin