Re: Results of port of Sept 18 port of PostgreSQL

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: bruc(at)pluto(dot)njcc(dot)com (Robert Bruccoleri)
Cc: hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org (PostgreSQL-development)
Subject: Re: Results of port of Sept 18 port of PostgreSQL
Date: 1998-09-22 16:41:59
Message-ID: 199809221641.MAA17213@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Dear Bruce,
>
> >
> > > At this point the Irix port is nearly complete. There are two problems
> > > that remain.
> > >
> > > First, the snprintf function does not process the %lld format
> > > correctly. Frankly, there is no reason to use it in
> > > src/backend/utils/adt/int8.c because there is not chance of exceeding
> > > the supplied buffer. sprintf is safe in this circumstance and works
> > > correctly.
> >
> > Are you talking about the Irix snprintf, our our ports/snprintf.c?
>
> Irix doesn't have snprintf, so I'm talking about your ports. They
> are missing %lld formats.

OK, we need our ports snprintf() to understand %lld. Marc?

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