Dear all,
I'm facing a problem with psprintf and the %jd format string. I used
the following C-code:
PG_RETURN_CSTRING(psprintf("%d@%jd", (int)1, (intmax_t)2));
While this worked fine in past, I recently get (with PostgreSQL 13):
ERROR: vsnprintf failed: Invalid argument with format string "%d@%jd"
I was not able to figure out what's the problem. Apparently this error
is thrown when vsnprintf(buf, len, fmt, args) in src/common/psprintf.c
returns a negative value. However, calling snprintf(buf, len, "%d@%jd",
(int)1, (intmax_t)2)) in a separate test program works fine on my
system.
I found a workaround. The following call works fine:
PG_RETURN_CSTRING(psprintf("%d@%lld", (int)1, (long long)2));
I could live with the workaround, but it is a bit scary, as I don't
really understand why "%jd" fails while "%lld" does not. Does anyone
know why, and/or is it possible for anyone else to reproduce the
problem?
Kind regards,
Jan Behrens
