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author | Tom Lane | 2010-05-08 16:40:52 +0000 |
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committer | Tom Lane | 2010-05-08 16:40:52 +0000 |
commit | 47bdd80dc119d793b7ce9f5d5e955d7ee7da2560 (patch) | |
tree | acd83f889ffab50a90e89d5a949b25731aa13f65 /doc/src | |
parent | 79c712aae8378912e924ab9ee1fe5ae1f965467d (diff) |
Work around a subtle portability problem in use of printf %s format.
Depending on which spec you read, field widths and precisions in %s may be
counted either in bytes or characters. Our code was assuming bytes, which
is wrong at least for glibc's implementation, and in any case libc might
have a different idea of the prevailing encoding than we do. Hence, for
portable results we must avoid using anything more complex than just "%s"
unless the string to be printed is known to be all-ASCII.
This patch fixes the cases I could find, including the psql formatting
failure reported by Hernan Gonzalez. In HEAD only, I also added comments
to some places where it appears safe to continue using "%.*s".
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