Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] snprintf causes regression

From: pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Nicolai Tufar" <ntufar(at)gmail(dot)com>, "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
Date: 2005-03-02 21:38:28
Message-ID: 16674.24.91.171.78.1109799508.squirrel@mail.mohawksoft.com
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> First line of thought: we surely must not insert a snprintf into
>>> libpq.so unless it is 100% up to spec *and* has no performance issues
>>> ... neither of which can be claimed of the CVS-tip version.
>
>> Agreed, and we have to support all the 64-bit specifications a port
>> might support like %qd and %I64d as well as %lld. I have added that to
>> our current CVS version.
>
> I really dislike that idea and request that you revert it.
>
>> Is there any way we can have just gettext() call our snprintf under a
>> special name?
>
> The issue only comes up in libpq --- in the backend there is no reason
> that snprintf can't be our snprintf, and likewise in self-contained
> programs like psql. It might be worth the pain-in-the-neck quality to
> have libpq refer to the functions as pq_snprintf etc. Perhaps we could
> do this via macros
>
> #define snprintf pq_snprintf

Didn't I suggest that earlier? :) Also, since it is vsnprintf that seems
to be a bigger issue:

#define vsnprintf pq_vsnprintf

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