Daniel Verite wrote:
> > * In the "if (cont.cells[idx] != NULL && cont.cells[idx][0] != '\0')"
> > block (line 497 in the attached), can't we do the same thing by using
> > psprintf?
>
> In that block, we can't pass a cell contents as a valist and be done with
> that cell, because duplicates of (col value,row value) may happen
> at any iteration of the upper loop over PQntuples(results). Any cell really
> may need reallocation unpredictably until that loop is done, whereas
> psprintf starts by allocating a new buffer unconditionally, so it doesn't
> look
> to me like it could help to simplify that block.
I messed with that code some more, as it looked unnecessarily
complicated; please see attached and verify that it still behaves
sanely. This needs those regression tests you promised. I tested a few
cases and it seems good to me.
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