Le 23/11/2016 à 16:26, Tom Lane a écrit :
> "Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com> writes:
>> Maybe on the 2nd call to strtok() you could pass ""
>> as the 2nd argument? That'd be a little wonky but
>> the man page does not say you can't have an empty
>> set of delimiters. On the other hand strtok() is
>> not a perfect choice, you don't want to "collapse"
>> adjacent delimiters in the parsed string or ignore
>> leading spaces. I'd prefer a strstr() solution.
> I'd stay away from strtok() no matter what. The process-wide static
> state it implies is dangerous: if you use it, you're betting that
> you aren't interrupting some caller's use, nor will any callee decide
> to use it. In a system as large as Postgres, that's a bad bet, or
> would be if we didn't discourage use of strtok() pretty hard.
>
> As far as I can find, there are exactly two users of strtok() in
> the backend, and they're already playing with fire because one
> calls the other (look in utils/misc/tzparser.c). I don't want the
> hazard to get any larger.
>
> regards, tom lane
Understood, I will remove and replace this call from the patch and more
generally from my programming.
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