Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
> <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
>> I added a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS call in the copy_relation_data(),
>> copy_dir(), and copy_file() functions. Works for me on ALTER TABLE ...
>> SET TABLESPACE and ALTER DATABASE ... SET TABLESPACE, in 9.0 and 8.4.
> Adding a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() to copy_relation_data seems like it
> ought to be OK (though I haven't tested), but copydir() is in
> src/port, and I fear that putting CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() in there
> might cause problems.
copydir.c is already backend-specific thanks to all the ereport calls.
If we ever tried to make it usable in frontend code, we could easily
deal with CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() via #ifndef FRONTEND --- changing the
error management would be far more painful.
regards, tom lane
