Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > > Pushed with those fixes, thanks. I noticed we also needed to match > > files global.stat and global.tmp. Also I added another conversion to > > the sscanf pattern, to ignore files named "db_1234.tmp.foo" and such > > (i.e. stuff after whitespace). > > After reading the sscanf man page, it seemed like this still wasn't > covering all the bases about where sscanf will silently skip whitespace, > so I hacked it a bit more.
Funnily enough, my own reading of that manpage got me a flawed understanding of %n -- I interpreted it as returning the number of items matched, not the number of chars read .. and I was precisely looking for a way to determine the latter. Thanks. -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers