Re: Allowing printf("%m") only where it actually works

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-08-12T14:49:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr> writes:
> Indeed, there are hundreds of warnings around "pg_printf_attribute_m" 
> added with gcc 7.3.0 on by ubuntu 18.04 laptop, thanks to 3a60c8ff.

Oh?  What warnings exactly?  I would not expect any new warnings except
on platforms where gcc believes the local printf is non POSIX compliant,
which certainly ought not happen on any non-obsolete Linux.

			regards, tom lane


Commits

  1. In pg_log_generic(), be more paranoid about preserving errno.

  2. Make src/common/exec.c's error logging less ugly.

  3. Select appropriate PG_PRINTF_ATTRIBUTE for recent NetBSD.

  4. Fix detection of the result type of strerror_r().

  5. Try another way to detect the result type of strerror_r().

  6. Clean up *printf macros to avoid conflict with format archetypes.

  7. Fix link failures due to snprintf/strerror changes.

  8. Implement %m in src/port/snprintf.c, and teach elog.c to rely on that.

  9. Always use our own versions of *printf().

  10. Incorporate strerror_r() into src/port/snprintf.c, too.

  11. Convert elog.c's useful_strerror() into a globally-used strerror wrapper.

  12. Revert "Distinguish printf-like functions that support %m from those that don't."

  13. Produce compiler errors if errno is referenced inside elog/ereport calls.

  14. Distinguish printf-like functions that support %m from those that don't.

  15. Fix unportable usage of printf("%m").

  16. Be more robust when strerror() doesn't give a useful result.