Re: danger of stats_temp_directory = /dev/shm

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > Pushed with those fixes, thanks. I noticed we also needed to match
> > files global.stat and global.tmp. Also I added another conversion to
> > the sscanf pattern, to ignore files named "db_1234.tmp.foo" and such
> > (i.e. stuff after whitespace).
>
> After reading the sscanf man page, it seemed like this still wasn't
> covering all the bases about where sscanf will silently skip whitespace,
> so I hacked it a bit more.

Funnily enough, my own reading of that manpage got me a flawed
understanding of %n -- I interpreted it as returning the number of items
matched, not the number of chars read .. and I was precisely looking for
a way to determine the latter. Thanks.

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