Re: hash join error improvement (old)

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: hash join error improvement (old)
Date: 2020-05-27 01:46:54
Message-ID: CA+hUKG+Pews_43h76VvZsXZx4KjKHcwxS9c=kkXJWn2-9Q4oLQ@mail.gmail.com
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 1:30 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > There are more uses of BufFileRead that don't bother to distinguish
> > these two cases apart, though -- logtape.c, tuplestore.c,
> > gistbuildbuffers.c all do the same.
>
> Yeah. I rather suspect that callers of BufFileRead/Write are mostly
> expecting that those functions will throw an ereport() for any interesting
> error condition. Maybe we should make it so, instead of piecemeal fixing
> the callers?

Yeah. I proposed that over here:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+hUKGK0w+GTs8aDvsKDVu7cFzSE5q+0NP_9kPSxg2NA1NeZew@mail.gmail.com

But I got stuck trying to figure out whether to back-patch (arguably
yes: there are bugs here, but arguably no: the interfaces change).

In response to

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Tom Lane 2020-05-27 01:49:16 Re: some grammar refactoring
Previous Message Kyotaro Horiguchi 2020-05-27 01:46:27 Re: max_slot_wal_keep_size comment in postgresql.conf