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: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-08-10T21:04:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
I wrote:
> I think 0002 is probably pushable, really.  The unresolved issue about
> 0001 is whether it will create a spate of warnings on Windows builds,
> and if so what to do about it.  We might learn something from the
> cfbot about that, but I think the full buildfarm is going to be the
> only really authoritative answer.

Ah, cfbot has a run already, and it reports no warnings or errors in
its Windows build.

At this point I'm inclined to push both of those patches so we can
see what the buildfarm makes of them.

			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.