id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
345	"psDBPackRow() incorrectly handles most ""META"" types"	jhoblitt	aaron.culliney@…	"1) we are not planning to store 'globs' of binary data (at this point) in the
database.  Support for everything other then PS_META_STR should be removed from
this section.

2) non-string types have strlen() called on them, see 1

3) non-string types are tested to see if they are null by comparing them to '\0'
instead of 'NULL', see 1


        } else if ((item->type == PS_META_STR)         || (item->type ==
PS_META_VEC)    ||
                   (item->type == PS_META_IMG)         || (item->type ==
PS_META_HASH)   ||
                   (item->type == PS_META_LOOKUPTABLE) || (item->type ==
PS_META_JPEG)   ||
                   (item->type == PS_META_PNG)         || (item->type ==
PS_META_ASTROM) ||
                   (item->type == PS_META_UNKNOWN)     || (item->type ==
PS_TYPE_PTR)) {

            bind[i].buffer_length = (unsigned long)strlen((char *)item->data.V);
           bind[i].length  = &bind[i].buffer_length;
            bind[i].buffer  = item->data.V;
            bind[i].is_null = *(char *)item->data.V == '\0'
                              ? (my_bool *)&isNull
                              : NULL;"	defect	closed	high		astro	0.5.0	normal	fixed