On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> I was thinking more about a sprintf()-type function that only
>> understands a handful of escapes, but adds the additional and novel
>> escapes %I (quote as identifier) and %L (quote as literal).  I think
>> that would allow a great deal of code simplification, and it'd be more
>> efficient, too.
>
> Seems like a great idea.  Are you offering to code it?

Not imminently.

> Note that this wouldn't entirely fix the fmtId problem, as not all the
> uses of fmtId are directly in sprintf calls.  Still, it might get rid of
> most of the places where it'd be painful to avoid a memory leak with
> a strdup'ing version of fmtId.

Yeah, I didn't think about that.  Might be worth a look to see how
comprehensively it would solve the problem.  But I'll have to leave
that for another day.

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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