22024 — unterminated_c_string

The catalogue condition names a C-style string that ended before its required terminator. The bounded PostgreSQL 18.6 source review confirms the definition but does not bind a native emitting report group.

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aliases: Unknown
class name: Data Exception
condition name: unterminated_c_string
lang: en
sqlstate: 22024

Definition PG 18

22024

At a glance {#at-a-glance}

Meaning {#meaning}

22024 describes an unterminated C-style string or escape sequence at the interface/parser layer, but the fixed source scope here does not identify which PostgreSQL component emits it. The condition name alone is insufficient to assign a SQL text, ECPG, client, primary message, or recovery path.

Diagnosis {#diagnosis}

Use the complete diagnostic and the parser or interface that produced it. Check where the quoted string or escape token should terminate and preserve the original input; do not infer that a client truncation or an arbitrary SQL quote problem necessarily maps to 22024.

Response {#response}

Terminate or re-encode the string at the owning parser boundary and follow that layer’s documented recovery. Because no emitter was resolved in this bounded review, transaction and severity behavior remain unknown here.

Versions {#versions}

The locked catalogue records this condition from 7.4; only the PostgreSQL 18.6 definition and bounded source scope are confirmed. No natural runtime observation is claimed for this page.

Related {#related}

22025, 22019

Sources {#sources}

The fixed catalogue definition is recorded in the structured evidence record. Its bounded-scan claim deliberately leaves the native emitter, primary text, severity, and transaction behavior unknown; no natural runtime was run.

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SQLSTATE evidence and recorded runtime versions

claims · identity

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  "claim_id": "identity",
  "limits": "",
  "method": "Read the fixed errcodes row and macro.",
  "position": 0,
  "runtime": [],
  "sources": [
    "src.errcodes.18.6"
  ],
  "statement": "22024 is unterminated_c_string in SQLSTATE Class 22."
}

claims · bounded-scan

{
  "claim_id": "bounded-scan",
  "limits": "A bounded scan does not prove that no extension, client, or historical path exists.",
  "method": "Retain definition evidence without inventing an SQL, ECPG, client, or parser emitter.",
  "position": 1,
  "runtime": [],
  "sources": [
    "src.errcodes.18.6"
  ],
  "statement": "No fixed PostgreSQL 18.6 emitting report group was resolved for 22024 in the bounded source review."
}

claims · history

{
  "claim_id": "history",
  "limits": "",
  "method": "Use catalogue presence and history boundaries.",
  "position": 2,
  "runtime": [],
  "sources": [
    "src.errcodes.18.6"
  ],
  "statement": "The locked catalogue records 22024 from 7.4 without proving an exact implementation introduction date."
}

sources · src.errcodes.18.6

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  "commit": "724edf9bde9d356724ad384a2e196edc3c9f80f7",
  "docs_url": "",
  "kind": "upstream_source",
  "location": "",
  "path": "src/backend/utils/errcodes.txt",
  "position": 0,
  "sha256": "6e8de346643ba84aa3c9c6a73360acfc7b2dfb89162c06c08ce9bf5bcd5bbcba",
  "source_id": "src.errcodes.18.6",
  "tag": "REL_18_6",
  "url": "https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/724edf9bde9d356724ad384a2e196edc3c9f80f7/src/backend/utils/errcodes.txt#L203"
}

Source references

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Full definition and evidence JSON

Definition sources

center · PostgreSQL 18 · english-manuals:b81ef5f2fa1c3794b21ea51505376515b59ac625626bb23df0e206abe8bc6567

Text language: en · english-manuals:b81ef5f2fa1c3794b21ea51505376515b59ac625626bb23df0e206abe8bc6567