On Saturday 17 January 2009 11:44:07 Alan Li wrote:
> Attached are patches to fix the following compiler warnings that I see when
> using gcc 4.3.2.
>
> MASTER warning:
> tablecmds.c: In function 'DropErrorMsgWrongType':
> tablecmds.c:601: warning: format not a string literal and no format
> arguments
>
> REL8_3_STABLE warnings:
> utility.c: In function 'DropErrorMsgWrongType':
> utility.c:129: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
> trigger.c: In function 'ConvertTriggerToFK':
> trigger.c:600: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
> trigger.c:616: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
> trigger.c:628: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
> guc.c: In function 'set_config_option':
> guc.c:4424: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
> describe.c: In function 'describeOneTableDetails':
> describe.c:1294: warning: format not a string literal and no format
> arguments
You apparently have your compiler configured with -Wformat-security. Our code
doesn't do that. I think the cases the warning complains about are fine and
the way the warning is designed is a bit bogus.