Use improved vsnprintf calling logic in more places.
authorTom Lane <[email protected]>
Fri, 25 Oct 2013 01:43:57 +0000 (21:43 -0400)
committerTom Lane <[email protected]>
Fri, 25 Oct 2013 01:43:57 +0000 (21:43 -0400)
commit3147acd63e0135aff9a6c4b01d861251925d97d9
treecd34bf3803b1e3f83bfd3fe58c6d75a9206cfcaf
parent98c50656cac2e6b873419fd09569a9119c02148c
Use improved vsnprintf calling logic in more places.

When we are using a C99-compliant vsnprintf implementation (which should be
most places, these days) it is worth the trouble to make use of its report
of how large the buffer needs to be to succeed.  This patch adjusts
stringinfo.c and some miscellaneous usages in pg_dump to do that, relying
on the logic recently added in libpgcommon's psprintf.c.  Since these
places want to know the number of bytes written once we succeed, modify the
API of pvsnprintf() to report that.

There remains near-duplicate logic in pqexpbuffer.c, but since that code
is in libpq, psprintf.c's approach of exit()-on-error isn't appropriate
for use there.  Also note that I didn't bother touching the multitude
of places that call (v)snprintf without any attempt to provide a resizable
buffer.

Release-note-worthy incompatibility: the API of appendStringInfoVA()
changed.  If there's any third-party code that's calling that directly,
it will need tweaking along the same lines as in this patch.

David Rowley and Tom Lane
src/backend/lib/stringinfo.c
src/backend/utils/error/elog.c
src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_archiver.c
src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_tar.c
src/common/psprintf.c
src/include/lib/stringinfo.h
src/include/utils/palloc.h
src/pl/plpython/plpy_elog.c