When the parsing of a query failed, the message would treat the parameter
as a string as the printf format was `%*s` instead of `%.*s`.
The manpage of printf states the following about the precision specifier:
... or the maximum number of characters to be printed from a string
for `s` and `S` conversions.
This means that the field length specifier is somewhat meaningless for
strings.
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