Date: 2017-10-09 09:59:49 +0200
From: Gatis Ozolins <<g.ozolins>>
To: SQL devs <>
Version: 11.27.5 (Jul2017-SP1)

Last updated: 2017-10-26 14:01:29 +0200

Comment 25685

Date: 2017-10-09 09:59:49 +0200
From: Gatis Ozolins <<g.ozolins>>

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0
Build Identifier:

Error "could not allocate space" is received when using RPAD with length parameter = 0

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

SELECT RPAD('test', 0)

Actual Results:

SQL Error [HY001]: could not allocate space
java.sql.SQLException: could not allocate space

Expected Results:

NULL

Comment 25695

Date: 2017-10-12 09:21:36 +0200
From: MonetDB Mercurial Repository <>

Changeset 32f71cab2c3b made by Sjoerd Mullender sjoerd@acm.org in the MonetDB repo, refers to this bug.

For complete details, see https//devmonetdborg/hg/MonetDB?cmd=changeset;node=32f71cab2c3b

Changeset description:

GDKstrndup with size 0 should return an empty string, not no string.
This fixes bug #6414.