Re: fallocate / posix_fallocate for new WAL file creation (etc...) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Jon Nelson escribió:
> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Jon Nelson <jnelson+pgsql@jamponi.net> wrote:

> > That's true. I originally wrote the patch using fallocate(2). What
> > would be appropriate here? Should I switch on the return value and the
> > six (6) or so relevant error codes?
>
> I addressed this, hopefully in a reasonable way.

Would it work to just assign the value you got from posix_fallocate (if
nonzero) to errno and then use %m in the errmsg() call in ereport()?

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