Re: pgsql: Minor pg_dump improvements - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: pgsql: Minor pg_dump improvements
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Msg-id 20140209183546.GA2921@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: pgsql: Minor pg_dump improvements  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: pgsql: Minor pg_dump improvements  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> > * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> >> I'm pretty sure you broke _CloseArchive with this hunk:
>
> > That'd be pretty frustrating as my testing didn't exhibit any issues.
>
> It's possible that errno is accidentally zero when we get there, but
> the code as-committed surely can't be called bulletproof.

Agreed, oversight on my part.

The only remaining place we still clear errno in pg_dump is in
pg_backup_archive.c:checkSeek() around a similar ftello call, perhaps
that should be changed to check the result instead also?

    Thanks,

        Stephen

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