From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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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] pg_dump not in very good shape |
Date: | 2000-01-16 20:12:01 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.21.0001161828190.1636-100000@localhost.localdomain |
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On 2000-01-15, Tom Lane mentioned:
> I am inclined to go ahead and insert vsnprintf into libpq.
> The risk of problems seems pretty small (and it's zero on any
> machine with a reasonably recent libc, since then vsnprintf
> will be in libc and we won't link our version). The risk of
> missing a buffer-overrun condition in pg_dump, and shipping
> a pg_dump that will fail on someone's database, seems worse.
>
> Comments? Better ideas?
I think including this in libpq is the wrong way to go. It's not meant for
external clients. If you open this can of worms then anything psql or
pg_dump feel like using that day becomes part of the library interface.
We'd be stuck with supporting this forever.
A better idea would be to do what psql does with snprintf: Just include
the [v]snprintf.o file in the compilation (linking) conditionally. (Of
course a better plan might even be consolidating all the backend/port and
utils stuff into one unified port directory that everyone in the source
tree can use, but that's probably too much bother right now.)
One thing that I hope I can tackle for 7.1 is cleaning up the build
process (with automake?) and that would take care of missing functions
automatically by substituting a replacement contained in the distribution,
as I suggested above.
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