Re: more POSIX 2008 cleanup: strnlen(), rindex()

Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>

From: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>

To: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2026-01-03T09:58:14Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 at 10:52, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
> It has previously been established that POSIX 2008 is the baseline for
> PostgreSQL code (modulo Windows).  Looking through the POSIX 2008
> changes, I found a few more things we can clean up with respect to that.

Both changes look sensible to me

Commits

Remove use of rindex() function
- 6ade3cd459f5 19 (unreleased) landed
strnlen() is now required
- 5e7abdac9913 19 (unreleased) landed
Add pg_strnlen() a portable implementation of strlen.
- 8a241792f968 11.0 cited