Re: seahorse again failing

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Stefan Kaltenbrunner" <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: seahorse again failing
Date: 2006-08-23 08:24:52
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCEA3558C@algol.sollentuna.se
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> >> It may be a good idea to put a elog(LOG) with the error code in
> the
> >> failure path of AllocateFile.
> >>
> >
> > That seems like a plan to me. I had been thinking of making
> > win32error.c itself log the conversions, but that would not
> provide
> > any context information. AllocateFile could log the file name
> along
> > with the code, which should be enough info to associate a
> particular
> > log entry with the actual failure.
> >
> > Note you should probably save and restore errno around the elog
> call,
> > just to be safe.
> >
> > Could someone with access to Windows code and test this?
> >
> >
>
> All this seems good and sensible.
>
> I am just a little suspicious of seahorse, though, as it is running
> on a Xen VM.
>
> I wonder if we should add a VM column to the buildfarm machine
> specs.

Definitly. If nothing else, it should at least be listed in the platform
identificagtion. AFAIK, Snake is also a VM, and Daves other box as
well... But on VMWare (or was it Virtual Server?) and not Xen, but
still.

//Magnus

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