Re: unknown conversion %m

On 04/28/2011 12:41 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>>
c:/mingw/msys/1.0/home/pgrunner/bf/root/HEAD/pgsql.3240/../pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/timestamp.c:505:6:
>>      warning: unknown conversion type character 'G' in format
>>
c:/mingw/msys/1.0/home/pgrunner/bf/root/HEAD/pgsql.3240/../pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/timestamp.c:685:6:
>>      warning: unknown conversion type character 'V' in format
> These are a bit interesting.  According to the Single Unix Spec, %V
> has been standard for strftime since at least 1997, so it's damn odd
> if MS' version doesn't support that.  OTOH, %G is *not* in that standard
> ... should we try to avoid using that?
>
> But it looks like all those cases are only reached if the ecpg-using
> application tries to use those formats, so maybe any portability risks
> there aren't our problem.  Maybe a reasonable fix is the one that's
> already there for %g, ie, just prevent the gcc check from occurring.
>
>             

I'll make that change if Michael's happy.

cheers

andrew