Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> The problems are sufficiently bad that it might be a good idea to
>> backport the fixes into 8.0 and before as well --- but I note that
>> the ABI is different (pg_snprintf vs snprintf, etc) so this requires
>> a bit of investigation rather than just committing the file as-is.
> Not as many 8.0.X platforms used *printf because we didn't test %$ for
> its use on that release, so my bet is that very few platforms would be
> using it.
Hm. One of the main problems I found was incorrect results for
LONGLONG_MIN (-2^63). I'm rather tempted to add a test case for
that to the int8 regression test and see if any platforms fail ;-)
regards, tom lane
