Re: GCC 7 warnings

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: GCC 7 warnings
Date: 2017-04-12 03:46:30
Message-ID: c4e7f361-358b-45f9-bbe4-e167fa4de16c@2ndquadrant.com
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On 4/11/17 13:57, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>
>>> d) Replace most of the problematic code with psprintf() and dynamically
>>> sized buffers.
>>
>> +1 for (c) as you have it. Later we might think about selectively
>> doing (d), but it seems like more work for probably not much benefit.
>
> Yeah -- also it's possible some of these code paths must not attempt to
> palloc() for robustness reasons. I would go for c) only for now, and
> only try d) for very specific cases where there are no such concerns.

Attached is a more refined patch that I propose for PG10 now. Compared
to the previous rushed version, this one uses some more precise
arithmetic to size some of the buffers.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services

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