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 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org