/*------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * stringinfo.c * * StringInfo provides an indefinitely-extensible string data type. * It can be used to buffer either ordinary C strings (null-terminated text) * or arbitrary binary data. All storage is allocated with palloc(). * * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2000, PostgreSQL, Inc * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California * * $Id: stringinfo.c,v 1.26 2000/06/28 03:31:34 tgl Exp $ * *------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ #include "postgres.h" #include "lib/stringinfo.h" /* * makeStringInfo * * Create an empty 'StringInfoData' & return a pointer to it. */ StringInfo makeStringInfo(void) { StringInfo res; res = (StringInfo) palloc(sizeof(StringInfoData)); initStringInfo(res); return res; } /* * initStringInfo * * Initialize a StringInfoData struct (with previously undefined contents) * to describe an empty string. */ void initStringInfo(StringInfo str) { int size = 256; /* initial default buffer size */ str->data = (char *) palloc(size); str->maxlen = size; str->len = 0; str->data[0] = '\0'; } /* * enlargeStringInfo * * Internal routine: make sure there is enough space for 'needed' more bytes * ('needed' does not include the terminating null). * * NB: because we use repalloc() to enlarge the buffer, the string buffer * will remain allocated in the same memory context that was current when * initStringInfo was called, even if another context is now current. * This is the desired and indeed critical behavior! */ static void enlargeStringInfo(StringInfo str, int needed) { int newlen; needed += str->len + 1; /* total space required now */ if (needed <= str->maxlen) return; /* got enough space already */ /* * We don't want to allocate just a little more space with each * append; for efficiency, double the buffer size each time it * overflows. Actually, we might need to more than double it if * 'needed' is big... */ newlen = 2 * str->maxlen; while (needed > newlen) newlen = 2 * newlen; str->data = (char *) repalloc(str->data, newlen); str->maxlen = newlen; } /* * appendStringInfo * * Format text data under the control of fmt (an sprintf-like format string) * and append it to whatever is already in str. More space is allocated * to str if necessary. This is sort of like a combination of sprintf and * strcat. */ void appendStringInfo(StringInfo str, const char *fmt,...) { va_list args; int avail, nprinted; Assert(str != NULL); for (;;) { /*---------- * Try to format the given string into the available space; * but if there's hardly any space, don't bother trying, * just fall through to enlarge the buffer first. *---------- */ avail = str->maxlen - str->len - 1; if (avail > 16) { va_start(args, fmt); nprinted = vsnprintf(str->data + str->len, avail, fmt, args); va_end(args); /* * Note: some versions of vsnprintf return the number of chars * actually stored, but at least one returns -1 on failure. Be * conservative about believing whether the print worked. */ if (nprinted >= 0 && nprinted < avail - 1) { /* Success. Note nprinted does not include trailing null. */ str->len += nprinted; break; } } /* Double the buffer size and try again. */ enlargeStringInfo(str, str->maxlen); } } /*------------------------ * appendStringInfoChar * Append a single byte to str. * Like appendStringInfo(str, "%c", ch) but much faster. */ void appendStringInfoChar(StringInfo str, char ch) { /* Make more room if needed */ if (str->len + 1 >= str->maxlen) enlargeStringInfo(str, 1); /* OK, append the character */ str->data[str->len] = ch; str->len++; str->data[str->len] = '\0'; } /* * appendBinaryStringInfo * * Append arbitrary binary data to a StringInfo, allocating more space * if necessary. */ void appendBinaryStringInfo(StringInfo str, const char *data, int datalen) { Assert(str != NULL); /* Make more room if needed */ enlargeStringInfo(str, datalen); /* OK, append the data */ memcpy(str->data + str->len, data, datalen); str->len += datalen; /* * Keep a trailing null in place, even though it's probably useless * for binary data... */ str->data[str->len] = '\0'; }