Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>       Upon successful completion snprintf() and vsnprintf() return the number
>       of characters that would have been written to a sufficiently sized str,
>       excluding the terminating NUL character.

> but it seems this is some BSD'ism that we don't need to support if the
> standard doesn't say so.

Yeah, that is a BSD-ism.  You have a point though, we ought to document
which return convention the code follows.  I'll add something.

                        regards, tom lane

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