On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 12:12:18PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> FWIW, I noticed while fooling with pre-release Fedora 28 that gcc 8.0.1
> emits a whole boatload of these warnings by default. This patch doesn't
> seem to have moved the needle very much, either. In a quick look, it
> seemed like a lot of them were things we simply wouldn't be interested
> in fixing ("yeah, the path length limit is MAXPGPATH, tough"). So
> I'm thinking we're going to be needing -Wno-format-truncation soon.
Maybe it is worth a try on Debian as well. The base packages use GCC 7
but I can see that 8 is also available.
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Michael
