/*-------------------------------------------------------------------- * Symbols referenced in this file: * - pvsnprintf * - psprintf *-------------------------------------------------------------------- */ /*------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * psprintf.c * sprintf into an allocated-on-demand buffer * * * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2015, 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,...) { 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. */ 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, len > 0). * * 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. * * This function exists mainly to centralize our workarounds for * non-C99-compliant vsnprintf implementations. Generally, any call that * pays any attention to the return value should go through here rather * than calling snprintf or vsnprintf directly. * * 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. * 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; Assert(len > 0); errno = 0; /* * Assert check here is to catch buggy vsnprintf that overruns the * specified buffer length. Solaris 7 in 64-bit mode is an example of a * platform with such a bug. */ #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING buf[len - 1] = '\0'; #endif nprinted = vsnprintf(buf, len, fmt, args); Assert(buf[len - 1] == '\0'); /* * If vsnprintf reports an error other than ENOMEM, fail. The possible * causes of this are not user-facing errors, so elog should be enough. */ if (nprinted < 0 && errno != 0 && errno != ENOMEM) { #ifndef FRONTEND elog(ERROR, "vsnprintf failed: %m"); #else fprintf(stderr, "vsnprintf failed: %s\n", strerror(errno)); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); #endif } /* * Note: some versions of vsnprintf return the number of chars actually * stored, not the total space needed as C99 specifies. And at least one * returns -1 on failure. Be conservative about believing whether the * print worked. */ if (nprinted >= 0 && (size_t) nprinted < len - 1) { /* Success. Note nprinted does not include trailing null. */ return (size_t) nprinted; } if (nprinted >= 0 && (size_t) nprinted > len) { /* * This appears to be a C99-compliant vsnprintf, so believe its * estimate of the required space. (If it's wrong, the logic will * still work, but we may loop multiple times.) Note that the space * needed should be only nprinted+1 bytes, but we'd better allocate * one more than that so that the test above will succeed next time. * * In the corner case where the required space just barely overflows, * fall through so that we'll error out below (possibly after * looping). */ if ((size_t) nprinted <= MaxAllocSize - 2) return nprinted + 2; } /* * Buffer overrun, and we don't know how much space is needed. Estimate * twice the previous buffer size, but not more than MaxAllocSize; if we * are already at MaxAllocSize, choke. Note we use this palloc-oriented * overflow limit even when in frontend. */ if (len >= MaxAllocSize) { #ifndef FRONTEND ereport(ERROR, (errcode(ERRCODE_PROGRAM_LIMIT_EXCEEDED), errmsg("out of memory"))); #else fprintf(stderr, _("out of memory\n")); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); #endif } if (len >= MaxAllocSize / 2) return MaxAllocSize; return len * 2; }