On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:38:58 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a reason why we don't use the snprintf that comes with the > various C compilers?
snprintf() is usually buried in OS libraries. We implement our own snprintf to make things like this: snprintf(buf,"%2$s %1$s","world","Hello"); which is not supported on some platforms work. We do it for national language translation of messages. In some languages you may need to change order of parameters to make a meaningful sentence. Another question is why we are using it for printing values from database. I am not too good on function overriding in standard C but maybe there is a way to usage of standard snprintf() in a particular place. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org