pgsql: walmethods.c/h: Make Walfile a struct, rather than a void *

From: Robert Haas <rhaas(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: walmethods.c/h: Make Walfile a struct, rather than a void *
Date: 2022-09-19 15:26:04
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walmethods.c/h: Make Walfile a struct, rather than a void *

This makes the curent file position and pathname visible in a generic
way, so we no longer need current_walfile_name global variable or the
get_current_pos() method. Since that purported to be able to fail but
never actually did, this also lets us get rid of some unnecessary
error-handling code.

One risk of this change is that the get_current_pos() method
previously cleared the error indicator, and that will no longer happen
with the new approach. I looked for a way that this could cause problems
and did not find one.

The previous code was confused about whether "Walfile" was the
implementation-dependent structure representing a WAL file or
whether it was a pointer to that stucture. Some of the code used it
one way, and some in the other. The compiler tolerated that because
void * is interchangeable with void **, but now that Walfile is a
struct, it's necessary to be consistent. Hence, some references to
"Walfile" have been converted to "Walfile *".

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZS0Kw98fOoAcGz8B9iDhdqB4Be4e=vDZaJZ5A-xMYBqA@mail.gmail.com

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master

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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/4fd14794945e60c4aedad84b06ff1e2a7a6236f0

Modified Files
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src/bin/pg_basebackup/receivelog.c | 48 ++++++++------------
src/bin/pg_basebackup/walmethods.c | 89 ++++++++++++++------------------------
src/bin/pg_basebackup/walmethods.h | 27 ++++++++----
3 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-)

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