Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > With 8.1_RC1 I *do* get the results Nicolai reported. With the changes I 
> > made yesterday, I see the result above, i.e. what we expect from our own 
> > breakage of sprintf (i haven't yet updated the snapshot I took).
> 
> Ah.  OK, that makes sense.
> 
> > But the simple fix seems to be to use our version of printf and friends. 
> > The changes requires are not too invasive.
> 
> I agree with doing this even if we weren't faced with (apparently)
> multiple versions of libintl that don't all work alike.  My thought is
> that running our own version of snprintf on a heavily used port like
> Windows is exactly what is needed to flush out any remaining bugs.
> It's obviously not gotten enough field usage yet ...
> 
> Was the last patch you sent in ready for application, or are you still
> fooling with it?

He is still working on it.  It did not handle all *printf functions, as
he mentioned, and he might have other changes.

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