Re: pgwin32_open returning EINVAL

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Trevor Talbot <quension(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD <Andreas(dot)Zeugswetter(at)s-itsolutions(dot)at>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgwin32_open returning EINVAL
Date: 2007-12-20 12:43:45
Message-ID: 20071220124345.GH21084@svr2.hagander.net
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On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 04:39:55AM -0800, Trevor Talbot wrote:
> On 12/20/07, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>
> > ereport(WARNING,
> > (errmsg("could not open file \"%s\": %s violation", fileName,
> > (GetLastError() ==
> > ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION)?_("sharing"):_("lock")),
> > errdetail("Continuing to retry for 30 seconds."),
> > errhint("You may have antivirus, backup or similar software
> > interfering with the database.")));
>
> Without looking myself, is it possible for errhint() or errdetail() to
> do something that affects GetLastError()? It's like errno, checking it
> very far away from the call site makes me nervous.

I guess, but it shouldn't matter. We're giong to loop right back up and do a
new CreateFile() after this, which will overwrite it again.

//Magnus

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