pgsql: Work around a subtle portability problem in use of printf %s

From: tgl(at)postgresql(dot)org (Tom Lane)
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Work around a subtle portability problem in use of printf %s
Date: 2010-05-08 16:39:53
Message-ID: 20100508163953.756987541D2@cvs.postgresql.org
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Work around a subtle portability problem in use of printf %s format.
Depending on which spec you read, field widths and precisions in %s may be
counted either in bytes or characters. Our code was assuming bytes, which
is wrong at least for glibc's implementation, and in any case libc might
have a different idea of the prevailing encoding than we do. Hence, for
portable results we must avoid using anything more complex than just "%s"
unless the string to be printed is known to be all-ASCII.

This patch fixes the cases I could find, including the psql formatting
failure reported by Hernan Gonzalez. In HEAD only, I also added comments
to some places where it appears safe to continue using "%.*s".

Modified Files:
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pgsql/src/backend/lib:
stringinfo.c (r1.52 -> r1.53)
(http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/lib/stringinfo.c?r1=1.52&r2=1.53)
pgsql/src/backend/parser:
scansup.c (r1.39 -> r1.40)
(http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/parser/scansup.c?r1=1.39&r2=1.40)
pgsql/src/backend/tsearch:
wparser_def.c (r1.30 -> r1.31)
(http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/tsearch/wparser_def.c?r1=1.30&r2=1.31)
pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt:
datetime.c (r1.210 -> r1.211)
(http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/datetime.c?r1=1.210&r2=1.211)
pgsql/src/backend/utils/error:
elog.c (r1.223 -> r1.224)
(http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c?r1=1.223&r2=1.224)
pgsql/src/bin/psql:
command.c (r1.218 -> r1.219)
(http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/bin/psql/command.c?r1=1.218&r2=1.219)
help.c (r1.157 -> r1.158)
(http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/bin/psql/help.c?r1=1.157&r2=1.158)
print.c (r1.124 -> r1.125)
(http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/bin/psql/print.c?r1=1.124&r2=1.125)
pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib:
error.c (r1.25 -> r1.26)
(http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib/error.c?r1=1.25&r2=1.26)
pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib:
dt_common.c (r1.51 -> r1.52)
(http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/dt_common.c?r1=1.51&r2=1.52)
pgsql/src/interfaces/libpq:
fe-misc.c (r1.141 -> r1.142)
(http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-misc.c?r1=1.141&r2=1.142)

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