David Rowley <dgrowle...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 4:00 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> Yeah. As a separate matter, it might be useful to revise stringinfo.c >> and the asprintf code so that *if* the returned value is larger than the >> given buffer size, we use it as a guide to resizing, avoiding the possible >> need to loop multiple times to make the buffer large enough. And we could >> also improve our own implementation of snprintf to follow the C99 spec.
> Attached is a draft patch which implements this. I started working on a very similar patch last night, but then began to wonder if it wouldn't be better to try to share code between stringinfo.c and psprintf.c --- that is, expose the latter's pvsnprintf and use that in stringinfo. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers