Re: [HACKERS] snprintf causes regression tests to fail

Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.win32,gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Does it help if you flip the order of the snprintf and vsnprintf
>> functions in snprintf.c?

> Yes, it fixes the problem and I have applied the reordering with a
> comment.

Fascinating.

> I will start working on fixing the large fmtpar allocations now.

Quite honestly, this code is not worth micro-optimizing because it
is fundamentally broken.  See my other comments in this thread.

Can we find a BSD-license implementation that follows the spec?

			regards, tom lane

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