[mapserver-users] A crash due to a space on front of a 'select' is an issue ?

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On 7/6/2014 4:21 AM, Andrea Peri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I notice that when , in the mapfile,
> I define a DATA element
> like this:
>
> DATA " select field1, field2, field3 from TABLE1"
>
> notice the space before the 'select' declaration.
>
> The mapserver crash declaring to be unable to reach the data.
>
> The issue is the space in front of the select.
>
> I don't know if this happened with all the formats.
> Surely it happen with spatialite format (I use it).
>
> I don't know if this is an issue to report or simply a wrong use of
> data element.
>
> Regards,
>
> A
>
Please report this in a bug ticket. mapserver should never crash. If 
there is an error in the input or usage it should detect it and report 
an appropriate error message.

Thanks,
   -Steve W