Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] snprintf causes regression tests to fail

From: Nicolai Tufar <ntufar(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Win32 port list <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] snprintf causes regression tests to fail
Date: 2005-03-09 12:40:24
Message-ID: d809293905030904403042ddef@mail.gmail.com
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Dear all,
After struggling for one week to to integrate FreeBSD's vfprintf.c into
PostgreSQL I finally gave up. It is too dependent on underlying
FreeBSD system functions. To incorporate it into PostgreSQL we need
to move vfprintf.c file itself, two dozen files form gdtoa and a half
a dozen __XXtoa.c files scattered in apparently random fashion all
around FreeBSD source tree.

Instead I researched some other implementations of snprintf on
the web released under a license compatible with PostgreSQL's.
The most suitable one I have come upon is Trio
[http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/trio/].
It is distributed under a MIT-like license which, I think will be
compatible with us.

What do you think about it? Shall I abandon FreeBSD and go ahead
ıncorporatıng Trıo?

And by the way, what ıs the conclusıon of snprıntf() vs. pg_snprintf()
and UNIX libraries discussion a week ago? Which one shall
I implement?

Regards,
Nicolai Tufar

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