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Neil Conway wrote:
> The attached patch implements the scheme outlined on -hackers a little
> while ago for reducing the usage of fmtId() in pg_dump. This is just
> a "proof of concept" -- I added a simple wrapper over
> appendPQExpBuffer() that takes an extra formatting sequence. The
> implementation is pretty trivial -- the assumption is made that
>
> (a) all printf-like formatting sequences consist of a '%' followed
> by a single character
>
> (b) any occurance of a '%' is a part of a formatting string
>
> I've converted a few of the places where fmtId() is used over to the new
> syntax. The reason I'm posting the patch is to get some feedback:
> is this a better method can just calling fmtId()?
>
> If so, I'll add some comments, convert all the code to use the wrapper
> as necessary, and think up a better name for the wrapper function.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neil
>
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> Neil Conway <neilconway@rogers.com>
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