[postgis-tickets] [PostGIS] #2185: Geometry output functions crash server with invalid WKT

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#2185: Geometry output functions crash server with invalid WKT
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 Reporter:  mwtoews     |       Owner:  pramsey      
     Type:  defect      |      Status:  new          
 Priority:  blocker     |   Milestone:  PostGIS 2.0.4
Component:  postgis     |     Version:  2.0.x        
 Keywords:  windows 64  |  
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Comment(by robe):

 I was wondering why if in fact geometry(TEXT) is the culprit ,why it
 doesn't crash like the others.  The reason is simple since the cost of it
 is set to 1 (because its a C func and we set no costs) it never gets
 cached.  The SQL functions on the other hand since we weren't setting
 costs were set to 100 presumably a threshold that 9.2edb x64 thought
 worthy of caching.

 I committed a less than honorable patch at r11476 for trunk (just because
 the costs are set too high anyway and it happens to as a side effect sugar
 coat this issue)
 and technicallly no one should be using these functions since they are
 there just to prevent text reps from falling into the geography trap.

 I'm going to experiment and see if I set the costs high enough under
 ming64 (which doesn't crash), if I can trigger the crash. Would be
 interesting to see if increasing the cost would trigger the issue on other
 systems.

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