pgsql: Clarify some errors in pg_receivewal when closing WAL segments

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Clarify some errors in pg_receivewal when closing WAL segments
Date: 2021-09-17 06:53:48
Message-ID: E1mR7kq-0001Qe-Fi@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Clarify some errors in pg_receivewal when closing WAL segments

A WAL segment closed during a WAL stream for pg_receivewal would
generate incorrect error messages depending on the context, as the file
name used when referring to a WAL segment ignored partial files or the
compression method used. In such cases, the error message generated
(failure on close, seek or rename) would not match a physical file
name. The same code paths are used by pg_basebackup, but it uses no
partial suffix so it is not impacted.

7fbe0c8 has introduced in walmethods.c a callback to get the exact
physical file name used for a given context, this commit makes use of it
to improve those error messages. This could be extended to more code
paths of pg_basebackup/ in the future, if necessary.

Extracted from a larger patch by the same author.

Author: Georgios Kokolatos
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZCm1J5vfyQ2E6dYvXz8si39HQ2gwxSZ3IpYaVgYa3lUwY88SLapx9EEnOf5uEwrddhx2twG7zYKjVeuP5MwZXCNPybtsGouDsAD1o2L_I5E=@pm.me

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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/cddcf7842c31b4d07ca75439f6b4ddacaadbbd0d

Modified Files
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src/bin/pg_basebackup/receivelog.c | 18 ++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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