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Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] 'pgsql/src/backend/lib stringinfo.c'

Goran Thyni <goran@bildbasen.se> — 1998-11-09T16:27:03Z

Tom Lane wrote:
> Actually, what would be *really* whizzy is some way of sprintf'ing
> into a StringInfo, with the ability to auto-expand the StringInfo as
> needed.  But that requires hooking into the low-level guts of printf,
> and AFAIK there's no portable way to do it short of providing your
> own complete printf implementation.  Not worth it.

Perl does it transparently, 
we could embed a perl-engine into the backend. :-)

I am joking but it would be more useful and probably
less work than writing a dynamic sprintf.

But their might be someone out-there on the 'Net that
has done a open-source dynamic sprintf already.
 
	mvh,
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