On 2013-11-11 12:18:46 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > > gettext has support for it afaics, it's part of POSIX: > > Really? [ pokes around at pubs.opengroup.org ] Hm, I don't see it > in Single Unix Spec v2 (1997), but it is there in POSIX issue 7 (2008). > Also, the POSIX page says it defers to the C standard, and I see it > in C99. Too bad not all our platforms are C99 yet :-(
Seems to be 2001: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/fprintf.html Even though the date says it's from 2004, it's IEEE Std 1003.1 + minor errata. > Actually this raises an interesting testing question: how sure are we > that there aren't already some format strings in the code that depend > on C99 additions to the printf spec? If they're not in code paths > exercised by the regression tests, I'm not sure we'd find out from > the buildfarm. I agree, it's problematic. Especially as such code is likely to be in error paths. I seem to recall you fixing some occurances you found manually some time back so we clearly don't have an automated process for it yet. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
