Re: snprintf causes regression tests to fail

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Nicolai Tufar <ntufar(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: snprintf causes regression tests to fail
Date: 2005-03-02 04:21:24
Message-ID: 6861.1109737284@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Does it help if you flip the order of the snprintf and vsnprintf
>> functions in snprintf.c?

> Yes, it fixes the problem and I have applied the reordering with a
> comment.

Fascinating.

> I will start working on fixing the large fmtpar allocations now.

Quite honestly, this code is not worth micro-optimizing because it
is fundamentally broken. See my other comments in this thread.

Can we find a BSD-license implementation that follows the spec?

regards, tom lane

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