Re: Errno checks for rmtree() - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Errno checks for rmtree()
Date
Msg-id 200502130128.j1D1S2D28353@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Errno checks for rmtree()  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Errno checks for rmtree()
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > OK, so you just wanted _an_ error string to be printed on failure rather
> > than the reasons.
>
> Well, what we want to know is the particular file that couldn't be
> deleted and the errno code.  This is all "can't happen" stuff and so
> it just has to be a message that is useful for debugging; I don't see
> that it has to be amazingly user-friendly.

Wow, you want to print out the raw errno number.  We only do that in one
or two places in our code that I could fine.

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