Re: gettext calls in pgport

Tom Lane wrote:

>Somebody just yesterday stuck an
>"fprintf(stderr,...); exit(1)" into one of the pgport routines. This
>sucks, but there is not a lot else that can be done if the code needs
>to exist in both backend and clients. It'd be better to propagate the
>error condition back to the caller.
>
>An alternative possibility is to stop pretending that pgport is agnostic
>about whether it is in backend or frontend. This might mean some
>duplication of code between src/port/ and src/backend/port/, but if
>that's what it takes to have sane error handling, that's what we should do.
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Maybe you're referring to the patch I sent in to strip the .exe suffix
in get_progname? ;-)

I wondered about that. The choices on strdup() error seemed to be:

. ignore the error and return the unstripped path, knowing the program
would fail in a minute on the next malloc call anyway
. return NULL and patch the code in about 20 places (of which one is the
backend) where get_progname() is called
. print a message and exit

I can see arguments for all of these ;-)

cheers

andrew