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Tom Lane db01ccc052 Work around a subtle portability problem in use of printf %s format.
Depending on which spec you read, field widths and precisions in %s may be
counted either in bytes or characters.  Our code was assuming bytes, which
is wrong at least for glibc's implementation, and in any case libc might
have a different idea of the prevailing encoding than we do.  Hence, for
portable results we must avoid using anything more complex than just "%s"
unless the string to be printed is known to be all-ASCII.

This patch fixes the cases I could find, including the psql formatting
failure reported by Hernan Gonzalez.  In HEAD only, I also added comments
to some places where it appears safe to continue using "%.*s".
2010-05-08 16:40:14 +00:00
config Detect and error out on inability to get proper linkage information required for plperl, usually due to absence of perl ExtUtils::Embed module. Backpatch as far as 8.1. 2008-11-12 00:00:29 +00:00
contrib Ensure that contrib/pgstattuple functions respond to cancel interrupts 2010-04-02 16:17:05 +00:00
doc Fix incorrect parameter tag in docs, spotted by KOIZUMI Satoru. 2010-05-05 15:14:24 +00:00
src Work around a subtle portability problem in use of printf %s format. 2010-05-08 16:40:14 +00:00
aclocal.m4 Add new auto-detection of thread flags. 2004-04-23 18:15:55 +00:00
configure tag 8.3.10 2010-03-12 03:40:31 +00:00
configure.in tag 8.3.10 2010-03-12 03:40:31 +00:00
COPYRIGHT Update copyrights in source tree to 2008. 2008-01-01 19:46:01 +00:00
GNUmakefile.in Replace useless uses of := by = in makefiles. 2007-02-09 15:56:00 +00:00
Makefile Remove remains of old depend target. 2007-01-20 17:16:17 +00:00
README Update libpqxx URL in top-level README, per Gurjeet Singh. 2008-03-05 17:04:42 +00:00
README.CVS Some further editorializing on README.CVS. 2004-03-28 06:09:08 +00:00

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.

PostgreSQL has many language interfaces including some of the more
common listed below:

C++ - http://pqxx.org/development/libpqxx/
JDBC - http://jdbc.postgresql.org
ODBC - http://odbc.postgresql.org
Perl - http://search.cpan.org/~dbdpg/
PHP - http://www.php.net
Python - http://www.initd.org/
Ruby - http://ruby.scripting.ca/postgres/

Other language binding are available from a variety of contributing
parties.

PostgreSQL also has a great number of procedural languages available,
a short, incomplete list is below:

PL/pgSQL - included in PostgreSQL source distribution
PL/Perl - included in PostgreSQL source distribution
PL/PHP - http://projects.commandprompt.com/projects/public/plphp
PL/Python - included in PostgreSQL source distribution
PL/Java - http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pljava/
PL/Tcl - included in PostgreSQL source distribution

See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install
PostgreSQL.  That file also lists supported operating systems and
hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other
software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL
system.  Changes between all PostgreSQL releases are recorded in the
file HISTORY.  Copyright and license information can be found in the
file COPYRIGHT.  A comprehensive documentation set is included in this
distribution; it can be read as described in the installation
instructions.

The latest version of this software may be obtained at
http://www.postgresql.org/download/.  For more information look at our
web site located at http://www.postgresql.org/.