| From: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: printTable API (was: Show INHERIT in \du) |
| Date: | 2008-03-30 16:06:59 |
| Message-ID: | 47EFBAA3.3060402@enterprisedb.com |
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Brendan Jurd wrote:
> 1. describe malloc's the cells to zero, but print just does a local
> calloc without any initialisation.
Um, calloc is the same as malloc + zero. Those two seem identical to me.
> 2. describe only does an mbvalidate for WIN32, but print does it in all cases.
There's this comment in describe.c:
> /*
> * mbvalidate() is used in function describeOneTableDetails() to make sure
> * all characters of the cells will be printed to the DOS console in a
> * correct way
> */
I don't know what that's about. Perhaps there's something in the archives...
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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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