Re: seahorse again failing

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: seahorse again failing
Date: 2006-08-22 13:25:12
Message-ID: 20060822132511.GK14368@alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> writes:
> > seahorse just failed again with one of the dreaded "permission denied"
> > errors we seem to sporadically getting reported on the lists:
> > seahorse is just a stock windows XP box (with all patches and
> > servicepacks applied) and msys/mingw.
> > There is no other software installed or ever was - maybe there is really
> > an underlying issue that is causing those sporadic "permission denied"
> > errors ?
>
> How repeatable is it?
>
> It would be interesting to know the actual underlying Windows error code
> --- I see that win32error.c maps several different codes to EACCES.

It may be a good idea to put a elog(LOG) with the error code in the
failure path of AllocateFile.

This particular problem must be coming from FindMyDatabase (or maybe
RebuildFlatFiles when called from PostgresMain?)

--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support

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