Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] 'pgsql/src/backend/lib stringinfo.c'

From: Goran Thyni <goran(at)bildbasen(dot)se>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] 'pgsql/src/backend/lib stringinfo.c'
Date: 1998-11-09 16:27:03
Message-ID: 364717D7.752881DE@bildbasen.se
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Actually, what would be *really* whizzy is some way of sprintf'ing
> into a StringInfo, with the ability to auto-expand the StringInfo as
> needed. But that requires hooking into the low-level guts of printf,
> and AFAIK there's no portable way to do it short of providing your
> own complete printf implementation. Not worth it.

Perl does it transparently,
we could embed a perl-engine into the backend. :-)

I am joking but it would be more useful and probably
less work than writing a dynamic sprintf.

But their might be someone out-there on the 'Net that
has done a open-source dynamic sprintf already.

mvh,
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