| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
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| To: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pgwin32_open returning EINVAL |
| Date: | 2007-11-28 15:24:26 |
| Message-ID: | 20071128152426.GM5118@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 11:57:35AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Can we do something like this to report the Win32 error code so that the
> > user has a higher chance of figuring out what's going on?
>
> The Windows API provides a way to get the error message associated
> with the code. It seems it would be more user-friendly if the message
> was displayed (just as for unix) rather than the code.
Yeah, I looked into that (it's FormatMessage) but it's sufficiently hard
to use that I refrained. All the more when I can't actually compile
that code.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.advogato.org/person/alvherre
"Nunca se desea ardientemente lo que solo se desea por razón" (F. Alexandre)
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