| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Numeric 508 datatype |
| Date: | 2005-12-02 22:49:22 |
| Message-ID: | 8471.1133563762@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Doh. OK, we gotta fix it then. But what are you going to do when you
>> can't malloc enough memory? You can't ereport in a client environment,
>> and there's no API for printf to report failure.
> Yep, I am digging through snprintf.c now to try find a solution.
Well, there's always the option of going back to plan B, which is not
using printf for strings that might be long. AFAICS it would only be
a convenience for psql, since it's not doing any real conversions,
just inserting the right number of spaces.
regards, tom lane
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