/*------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * psprintf.c * sprintf into an allocated-on-demand buffer * * * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2022, PostgreSQL Global Development Group * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California * * * IDENTIFICATION * src/common/psprintf.c * *------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ #ifndef FRONTEND #include "postgres.h" #include "utils/memutils.h" #else #include "postgres_fe.h" /* It's possible we could use a different value for this in frontend code */ #define MaxAllocSize ((Size) 0x3fffffff) /* 1 gigabyte - 1 */ #endif /* * psprintf * * Format text data under the control of fmt (an sprintf-style format string) * and return it in an allocated-on-demand buffer. The buffer is allocated * with palloc in the backend, or malloc in frontend builds. Caller is * responsible to free the buffer when no longer needed, if appropriate. * * Errors are not returned to the caller, but are reported via elog(ERROR) * in the backend, or printf-to-stderr-and-exit() in frontend builds. * One should therefore think twice about using this in libpq. */ char * psprintf(const char *fmt,...) { int save_errno = errno; size_t len = 128; /* initial assumption about buffer size */ for (;;) { char *result; va_list args; size_t newlen; /* * Allocate result buffer. Note that in frontend this maps to malloc * with exit-on-error. */ result = (char *) palloc(len); /* Try to format the data. */ errno = save_errno; va_start(args, fmt); newlen = pvsnprintf(result, len, fmt, args); va_end(args); if (newlen < len) return result; /* success */ /* Release buffer and loop around to try again with larger len. */ pfree(result); len = newlen; } } /* * pvsnprintf * * Attempt to format text data under the control of fmt (an sprintf-style * format string) and insert it into buf (which has length len). * * If successful, return the number of bytes emitted, not counting the * trailing zero byte. This will always be strictly less than len. * * If there's not enough space in buf, return an estimate of the buffer size * needed to succeed (this *must* be more than the given len, else callers * might loop infinitely). * * Other error cases do not return, but exit via elog(ERROR) or exit(). * Hence, this shouldn't be used inside libpq. * * Caution: callers must be sure to preserve their entry-time errno * when looping, in case the fmt contains "%m". * * Note that the semantics of the return value are not exactly C99's. * First, we don't promise that the estimated buffer size is exactly right; * callers must be prepared to loop multiple times to get the right size. * (Given a C99-compliant vsnprintf, that won't happen, but it is rumored * that some implementations don't always return the same value ...) * Second, we return the recommended buffer size, not one less than that; * this lets overflow concerns be handled here rather than in the callers. */ size_t pvsnprintf(char *buf, size_t len, const char *fmt, va_list args) { int nprinted; nprinted = vsnprintf(buf, len, fmt, args); /* We assume failure means the fmt is bogus, hence hard failure is OK */ if (unlikely(nprinted < 0)) { #ifndef FRONTEND elog(ERROR, "vsnprintf failed: %m with format string \"%s\"", fmt); #else fprintf(stderr, "vsnprintf failed: %s with format string \"%s\"\n", strerror(errno), fmt); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); #endif } if ((size_t) nprinted < len) { /* Success. Note nprinted does not include trailing null. */ return (size_t) nprinted; } /* * We assume a C99-compliant vsnprintf, so believe its estimate of the * required space, and add one for the trailing null. (If it's wrong, the * logic will still work, but we may loop multiple times.) * * Choke if the required space would exceed MaxAllocSize. Note we use * this palloc-oriented overflow limit even when in frontend. */ if (unlikely((size_t) nprinted > MaxAllocSize - 1)) { #ifndef FRONTEND ereport(ERROR, (errcode(ERRCODE_PROGRAM_LIMIT_EXCEEDED), errmsg("out of memory"))); #else fprintf(stderr, _("out of memory\n")); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); #endif } return nprinted + 1; }