pgsql-server: >>> I understand your disliking of non-posix stuff. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

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>>> I understand your disliking of non-posix stuff. OTOH,
>>GetLastError will
>>> give much more details than errno.
>>
>>How much more, really?  That mapping table gave me the impression that
>>the win32 error codes aren't all that much more detailed than errno...
>
>The mapping table is not complete. My winerror.h from the SDK
>lists 2209
>error codes, whereas errno.h lists 42...
>
>I still don't think we'll get that much more stuff. Right now,
>the Win32
>code paths that actually use the more advanced functions already write
>out the error number in case something happens. We can keep doing that
>for the other paths (ereport the error *number* when the mapping does
>not have a match). The map to errno will catch almost all cases, I
>think. And in the corner cases we can do with just the number, and use
>"net helpmsg" to get the actual message when checking...

Here's an attempt on this. new file goes in backend/port/win32.

Magnus Hagander

Modified Files:
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    pgsql-server/src/backend/port/win32:
        Makefile (r1.5 -> r1.6)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/backend/port/win32/Makefile.diff?r1=1.5&r2=1.6)
        shmem.c (r1.5 -> r1.6)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/backend/port/win32/shmem.c.diff?r1=1.5&r2=1.6)
    pgsql-server/src/backend/postmaster:
        syslogger.c (r1.5 -> r1.6)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/backend/postmaster/syslogger.c.diff?r1=1.5&r2=1.6)
    pgsql-server/src/include/port:
        win32.h (r1.27 -> r1.28)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/include/port/win32.h.diff?r1=1.27&r2=1.28)

Added Files:
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    pgsql-server/src/backend/port/win32:
        error.c (r1.1)

(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/backend/port/win32/error.c?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup)