| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: C99 compliance for src/port/snprintf.c |
| Date: | 2018-08-15 15:56:43 |
| Message-ID: | 20180815155643.zx4qpcmpvhemefyg@alvherre.pgsql |
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On 2018-Aug-15, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 7:28 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > I'm almost tempted to think that the reasons above make this a
> > back-patchable bug fix. Comments?
>
> No objections to changing the behavior. Have you checked whether
> there are any noticeable performance consequences?
>
> Back-patching seems a bit aggressive to me considering that the danger
> is hypothetical.
That was my first thought too, and my preferred path would be to make
this master-only and only consider a backpatch later if we find some
practical reason to do so.
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