Re: Add %z support to elog/ereport?

On 2014-01-17 13:50:08 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > [ 0001-Add-support-for-printing-Size-arguments-to-elog-erep.patch ]
>
> I think this approach is fundamentally broken, because it can't reasonably
> cope with any case more complicated than "%zu" or "%zd". While it's
> arguable that we can get along without the ability to specify field width,
> since the [U]INT64_FORMAT macros never allowed that, it is surely going
> to be the case that translators will need to insert "n$" flags in the
> translated versions of messages.

Am I just too tired, or am I not getting how INT64_FORMAT currently
allows the arguments to be used posititional?

Admittedly most places currently just cast down the value avoiding the
need for INT64_FORMAT in many places.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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