
The buffer allocation was correct, but looked archaic and scary: - It was weird to calculate the buffer size before determining which format string was used. With the same effort, we could've used the right-sized buffer for each branch. - Commit aa0d3504560 added one more possible return string ("all true bits"), but didn't adjust the code at the top of the function to calculate the returned string's max size. It was not a live bug, because the new string was smaller than the existing ones, but seemed wrong in principle. - Use of sprintf() is generally eyebrow-raising these days Switch to psprintf(). psprintf() allocates a larger buffer than what was allocated before, 128 bytes vs 80 bytes, which is acceptable as this code is not performance or space critical. Reviewed-by: Andres Freund Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/54c29fb0-edf2-48ea-9814-44e918bbd6e8@iki.fi
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
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