| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Allowing printf("%m") only where it actually works |
| Date: | 2018-09-25 16:05:42 |
| Message-ID: | 28378.1537891542@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 2018-Sep-25, Tom Lane wrote:
>> We could possibly write something like
>>
>> sprintf(wserrbuf, "winsock error %d (could not load netmsg.dll to translate: error code %lu)", err, GetLastError())));
>>
>> but I'm unconvinced that that's useful.
> Actually I think it *is* useful to do it like this, because then the
> user knows to fix the netmsg.dll problem so that they can continue to
> investigate the winsock problem. If we don't report the secondary error
> message, how are users going to figure out how to fix the problem?
OK, I'm fine with doing it like that if people want it.
regards, tom lane
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