Nicolai Tufar wrote:
> 1. I renamed snprintf() to pg_snprintf(), vsnprintf() to
> pg_vsnprintf() and introduced pg_printf() that calls pg_vsnprintf().

This is not necessary.  You will notice that we already have configure 
tests of snprintf format specifiers (%lld etc.), so using the original 
function names is OK even in that case.

> 4. I introduced a volatile static char[] variable in snprintf.c code
> so I can grep executables for this string and be sure that it is
> included.

Remove that when finalizing the code.

> 5. Before running regression test I always ran make install,
> apparently because libpq is read from /usr/local/.

That's because of the -rpath.

> 2. Why would we not just take FreeBSD's vfprintf() and use it
> instead?

Try it.  It's painful.

> 4. What %m format string is used for? And where is it handled. Do I
> need to implement it?

It's only used in the error reporting functions in the server and is 
handled there.  You don't need to worry about it.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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