On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> I was thinking more about a sprintf()-type function that only >> understands a handful of escapes, but adds the additional and novel >> escapes %I (quote as identifier) and %L (quote as literal). I think >> that would allow a great deal of code simplification, and it'd be more >> efficient, too. > > Seems like a great idea. Are you offering to code it?
Not imminently. > Note that this wouldn't entirely fix the fmtId problem, as not all the > uses of fmtId are directly in sprintf calls. Still, it might get rid of > most of the places where it'd be painful to avoid a memory leak with > a strdup'ing version of fmtId. Yeah, I didn't think about that. Might be worth a look to see how comprehensively it would solve the problem. But I'll have to leave that for another day. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
