Nicolai Tufar wrote:
> 1. I renamed snprintf() to pg_snprintf(), vsnprintf() to
> pg_vsnprintf() and introduced pg_printf() that calls pg_vsnprintf().
This is not necessary. You will notice that we already have configure
tests of snprintf format specifiers (%lld etc.), so using the original
function names is OK even in that case.
> 4. I introduced a volatile static char[] variable in snprintf.c code
> so I can grep executables for this string and be sure that it is
> included.
Remove that when finalizing the code.
> 5. Before running regression test I always ran make install,
> apparently because libpq is read from /usr/local/.
That's because of the -rpath.
> 2. Why would we not just take FreeBSD's vfprintf() and use it
> instead?
Try it. It's painful.
> 4. What %m format string is used for? And where is it handled. Do I
> need to implement it?
It's only used in the error reporting functions in the server and is
handled there. You don't need to worry about it.
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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
