Re: Fix for pg_upgrade status display

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Fix for pg_upgrade status display
Date: 2012-12-06 17:43:53
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYQ61GXAkOOK9tLw1Fph9kUo9ULAD0WoO7Mxe6Gyvz=WQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> Pg_upgrade displays file names during copy and database names during
> dump/restore. Andrew Dunstan identified three bugs:
>
> * long file names were being truncated to 60 _leading_ characters, which
> often do not change for long file names
>
> * file names were truncated to 60 characters in log files
>
> * carriage returns were being output to log files
>
> The attached patch fixes these --- it prints 60 _trailing_ characters to
> the status display, and full path names without carriage returns to log
> files.

This might be a dumb question, but why limit it to 60 characters at
all instead of, say, MAXPGPATH?

--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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