On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 04:34:50PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> So now I'm about ready to propose that we just *always* use
> snprintf.c, and forget all of the related configure probing.
Yes.
> This'd have some advantages, notably that we'd get the
> useful_strerror() behavior in frontend as well as backend,
> assuming we converted all our frontend code to use %m.
You'd also get to ensure that all uses from *die() are
async-signal-safe.
You'd also ensure that snprintf.c gets maximal testing.
> And we'd not exactly be the first project to decide that.
> But it's kind of a big move from where we are today.
>
> Thoughts?
I think that is the best approach.