Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>,Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org,pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject:
Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] snprintf causes regression tests to fail
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:38:58 -0500 (EST), pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com
<pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com> wrote:
> Is there a reason why we don't use the snprintf that comes with the
> various C compilers?
snprintf() is usually buried in OS libraries. We implement
our own snprintf to make things like this:
snprintf(buf,"%2$s %1$s","world","Hello");
which is not supported on some platforms work.
We do it for national language translation of
messages. In some languages you may need
to change order of parameters to make a meaningful
sentence.
Another question is why we are using it for printing
values from database. I am not too good on function
overriding in standard C but maybe there is a way
to usage of standard snprintf() in a particular place.
