| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] int 8 on FreeBSD |
| Date: | 1999-03-08 12:50:19 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.05.9903080849130.7045-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Tom Lane wrote:
> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> > Try what I just commited now...its only in v6.5 sources though...
> > I've modified it so that it checks for use of %lld, and if that fails,
> > check for use of %qd, before it falls back to our homebrew snprintf...
>
> What I committed this afternoon will work on a %qd box, it'll just
> choose to insert our homebrew snprintf instead of using the local
> version.
>
> Is it worth adding another test cycle to configure in order to use the
> native snprintf on these boxes? There are not that many boxes that
> use %qd; and it's not real clear that using our own snprintf is a loss
> anyway.
In all cases, using a system function is preferable to a "home brew
solution"...as its then guaranteed to work, and work optimally, for that
system...
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org
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