Re: stat() vs cygwin - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: stat() vs cygwin
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Msg-id 200806232140.m5NLe5D05645@momjian.us
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In response to stat() vs cygwin  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: stat() vs cygwin  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Magnus, was this fixed/resolved?

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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> It seems my fix for stat() broke cygwin, because it doesn't have
> dosmaperr() available. The way I see it there are two ways to fix this:
> 
> 1) Don't apply the stat fix for cygwin.
> 
> 2) Make our dosmaperr() function be used on cygwin.
> 
> 
> I don't know if the fix is actually needed on cygwin. Can someone with
> access to such an environment test it and see?
> 
> The easy check, easier than the table, goes something along the line
> of:
> CREATE TABLE test(t int);
> INSERT INTO test(t) SELECT * FROM generate_series(1,100000);
> SELECT pg_relation_size('t');
> SELECT pg_sleep(5);
> SELECT pg_relation_size('t');
> 
> 
> Without the patch on win32, the first pg_relation_size comes out as 0,
> and the second one correct. With the patch, they come out equal. They
> should, of course, always come out equal.
> 
> //Magnus
> 
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