Re: ECPG failure on BF member Vaquita (Windows Vista)

From: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Mark Wong <markwkm(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ECPG failure on BF member Vaquita (Windows Vista)
Date: 2007-04-27 06:53:09
Message-ID: 20070427065309.GA4375@feivel.credativ.de
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 01:35:42PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> AFAICS you do not need to inline create_statement. The risk factor
> is where you call a routine that does something with a va_list, and
> then you want to do something else (other than va_end) with that va_list
> after it returns. The one use of create_statement doesn't do that,
> hence no problem. (We know this works, because stringinfo.c does it.)

Given all the problems I had so far with this code I'd prefer to keep it
inlined. :-)

> BTW, I think there is a small bug there: you fail to call va_end() in the
> failure path. I'm not sure if there are any modern machines where
> va_end() isn't a no-op, but nonetheless the code isn't meeting the spec.

Fixed. Thanks.

Michael

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