Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump -Ft failed on Windows XP

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Zeugswetter Andreas DCP SD <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Yoshiyuki Asaba <y-asaba(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump -Ft failed on Windows XP
Date: 2006-06-27 01:18:44
Message-ID: 200606270118.k5R1IiW02062@momjian.us
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Modified patch attached and applied to HEAD and 8.1.X.

I restructured the loop exit, and used the symbols without the leading
underscores. I didn't see any Win32 underscore symbol usage in our
existing code.

Thanks.

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Zeugswetter Andreas DCP SD wrote:
>
> > >> Apparently it won't work at all if TMP isn't set?
> >
> > > I'm not *too* concerned about that, since TMP is normally set by the
> OS
> > > itself. There's one set in the "system environment" (to
> c:\windows\temp
> > > or whatrever) and then it's overridden by one set by the OS when it
> > > loads a user profile.
> >
> > OK, then maybe not having it would be equivalent to /tmp-not-writable
> > on Unix, ie, admin error.
> >
> > > Also to the point, what would you fall back to?
> >
> > Current directory maybe?
>
> It tries \ (tested on Win 2000), if the dir argument is NULL and TMP is
> not set.
> But TMP is usually set.
>
> Attached is a working version not yet adapted to port/.
> - memoryleak fixed
> - use _tmpname and _fdopen not the compatibility tmpname and fdopen
> (imho only cosmetic)
> - EACCES fixed (Win2000 needs _S_IREAD | _S_IWRITE or fails with EACCES,
> even as Admin)
> - I suggest adding a prefix pg_temp_ (for leftover temp files after
> crash,
> the name I get is then usually pg_temp_2)
>
> Andreas

Content-Description: pg_dump_tempfile.patch.txt

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