Re: Count output lines automatically in psql/help.c

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2022-06-10T11:50:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> I wonder whether this mix of HELP0 and HELP is necessary.  The original 
> code didn't care about calling fprintf even if there are no 
> substitutions.  I think this could lead to misalignment errors.  I 
> vaguely recall we once had mixes of fprintf and fputs and got rid of 
> them for this reason.

In the committed patch, I changed HELP to HELPN exactly so that
the strings would still line up.

			regards, tom lane



Commits

  1. Automatically count the number of output lines in psql/help.c.