Re: ECPG failure on BF member Vaquita (Windows Vista)

From: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Mark Wong <markwkm(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ECPG failure on BF member Vaquita (Windows Vista)
Date: 2007-04-26 09:30:04
Message-ID: 20070426093004.GA14147@feivel.credativ.de
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 03:17:19PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Why in the world is that like that? We don't have such a kluge
> anyplace else we use va_list. stringinfo.c for instance has
> never needed any such thing.

I don't remember the exact details but this was added a long time ago
before 8.0 because we had some problems with one of the archs. I was
suprised about the differences back then too, but haven't checked
since.

Michael
--
Michael Meskes
Email: Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org)
ICQ: 179140304, AIM/Yahoo: michaelmeskes, Jabber: meskes(at)jabber(dot)org
Go SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire! Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL!

In response to

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Michael Meskes 2007-04-26 10:07:41 Re: ECPG failure on BF member Vaquita (Windows Vista)
Previous Message Dave Page 2007-04-26 08:30:05 [Fwd: PGBuildfarm member narwhal Branch HEAD Status changed from OK to InstallCheck failure]