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

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

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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: 2018-08-10T20:05:11Z
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In the hopes of getting the cfbot un-stuck (it's currently trying to
test a known-not-to-work patch), here are updated versions of the two
live patches we have in this thread.

0001 is the patch I originally proposed to adjust printf archetypes.

0002 is Thomas's patch to blow up on errno references in ereport/elog,
plus changes in src/common/exec.c to prevent that from blowing up.
(I went with the minimum-footprint way, for now; making exec.c's
error handling generally nicer seems like a task for another day.)

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.

There's also the matter of providing similar safety for GetLastError
calls, but I think that deserves to be a separate patch ... and I don't
really want to take point on it since I lack a Windows machine.

			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.