Re: pg_restore error message

On 2020-May-07, Ranier Vilela wrote:

> Can suggest improvements?
> 
> 1. free (398 line) must be pg_free(buf)';

Yeah, there's a lot of frontend code that uses free() instead of
pg_free().  There are too many of these that worrying about a single one
would not improve things much.  I guess we could convert them all, but I
don't see much point.

> 2. %m, is a format to parameter, right?
>     But what parameter? Both fatal call, do not pass this parameter, or is
> it implied?

%m is an implied "strerror(errno)", implemented by our snprintf
replacement.

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