Re: pg_resetwal tests, logging, and docs update

On 01.11.23 12:12, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Hmm. I think maybe we should fix the behavior of
>> GetDataDirectoryCreatePerm() to be more consistent between Windows and
>> non-Windows. This is usually the first function a program uses on the
>> proposed data directory, so it's also responsible for reporting if the
>> data directory does not exist. But then on Windows, because the
>> function does nothing, those error scenarios end up on quite different
>> code paths, and I'm not sure if those are really checked that carefully.
>> I think we can make this more robust if we have
>> GetDataDirectoryCreatePerm() still run the stat() call on the proposed
>> data directory and report the error. See attached patch.
>
> Yep, that would be much better.
>
> Attaching all three patches together in order to make sure cfbot is
> still happy with them while the `master` branch is evolving.
>
> Assuming cfbot will have no complaints I suggest merging them.

Done, thanks.