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author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2010-05-08 16:40:14 +0000 |
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committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2010-05-08 16:40:14 +0000 |
commit | db01ccc05215f452903a602d1c7788575a7d61bf (patch) | |
tree | 6d8376e042c8d19e7097e64efd043fe130afa36c /src/include/utils/memutils.h | |
parent | 944cae5f76831bf826150b3c89edd894284b84c4 (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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