Tom Lane wrote:
> Actually, what would be *really* whizzy is some way of sprintf'ing
> into a StringInfo, with the ability to auto-expand the StringInfo as
> needed. But that requires hooking into the low-level guts of printf,
> and AFAIK there's no portable way to do it short of providing your
> own complete printf implementation. Not worth it.
Perl does it transparently,
we could embed a perl-engine into the backend. :-)
I am joking but it would be more useful and probably
less work than writing a dynamic sprintf.
But their might be someone out-there on the 'Net that
has done a open-source dynamic sprintf already.mvh,
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