Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Dennis Bjorklund writes:
>> Couldn't we use some library that already have this, like glib (or
>> something else). If it's not up to what we need, than fix that library
>> instead.
> I wasn't aware that glib had this. I'll look.
Of course the trouble with relying on glibc is that we'd have no solution
for platforms that don't use glibc.
It might be okay to rely on glibc for a first-cut implementation,
realizing that we couldn't do everything at once anyway.
regards, tom lane