Re: BUG #1741: %i missing in snprintf implementation

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Tim Mauch" <tgmauch(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> > The implementation of snprintf/vsnprintf in src/port/snprintf.c does not
> > allow the use of %i ( %d equivalent ). This likely isn't a problem for
> > postgres itself, but when a program compiles with -lpq and the standard c
> > libraries are not previously included the use of %i in the format string of
> > snprintf causes segmentation faults.
> > This is easily fixed by adding "case 'i':" to the same block of code handled
> > by "case 'd':" and case 'D':" in the implementation.
>
> We are certainly not going to buy into the assumption that our snprintf
> has to support every odd feature that anyone anywhere thinks snprintf
> should have :-(. The correct response to this is to figure out how your
> program's calls got linked to our snprintf, and stop that from
> happening.
>
> AFAICS, our library should be defining the global symbol pg_snprintf not
> snprintf. Can you look into why that's not happening for you?

Uh, the pg_snprintf macro fix is not in 8.0.X, only 8.1. The good news,
however, is that very few platforms used our snprintf in 8.0 (the ones
that don't have 64-bit integer support in snprintf).

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