Nicolai Tufar wrote: > Dear all, > After struggling for one week to to integrate FreeBSD's vfprintf.c into > PostgreSQL I finally gave up. It is too dependent on underlying > FreeBSD system functions. To incorporate it into PostgreSQL we need > to move vfprintf.c file itself, two dozen files form gdtoa and a half > a dozen __XXtoa.c files scattered in apparently random fashion all > around FreeBSD source tree. > > Instead I researched some other implementations of snprintf on > the web released under a license compatible with PostgreSQL's. > The most suitable one I have come upon is Trio > [http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/trio/]. > It is distributed under a MIT-like license which, I think will be > compatible with us. > > What do you think about it? Shall I abandon FreeBSD and go ahead > ?ncorporat?ng Tr?o?
Yes, maybe just add the proper %$ handling from Trio to what we have now. > And by the way, what ?s the conclus?on of snpr?ntf() vs. pg_snprintf() > and UNIX libraries discussion a week ago? Which one shall > I implement? I think the proper direction is not to export snprintf() from libpq so that user applications will use the native snprintf, but our code can use our custom version. I will work on a patch now. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
