Re: pgwin32_open returning EINVAL

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgwin32_open returning EINVAL
Date: 2007-11-29 15:37:30
Message-ID: 13733.1196350650@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>> Maybe. I'm concerned we might end up logging a whole lot more, for cases
>>> where it's not an actual error.

I'm very concerned about that too, and think that DEBUG5 is just fine.

> Hmm, I just noticed a bug in those fprintf calls -- they are missing
> the terminating newline. Please change that too if you're going to
> patch this part of the code. In order to avoid translation problems, I
> think it should be like this:

> fprintf(stderr, _("mapped win32 error code %lu to %d" "\n"), e, errno);

That's both unreadable and useless, because gettext will smash it to one
string anyway.

regards, tom lane

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