Re: Add %z support to elog/ereport?

On 2014-01-17 14:18:55 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > Meh. This isn't needed if we do what I suggest above, but in any case
> > I don't approve of removing the existing [U]INT64_FORMAT macros.
> > That breaks code that doesn't need to get broken, probably including
> > third-party modules.
>
> After looking more closely I see you didn't actually *remove* those
> macros, just define them in a different place/way. So the above objection
> is just noise, sorry. (Though I think it'd be notationally cleaner to let
> configure continue to define the macros; it doesn't need to do anything as
> ugly as CppAsString2() to concatenate...)

I prefer having configure just define the lenght modifier since that
allows to define further macros containing formats. But I think defining
them as strings instead row literals as I had might make it a bit less ugly...

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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