Re: pgsql: Address set of issues with errno handling - Mailing list pgsql-committers

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> writes:
> Address set of issues with errno handling

I happened to look at this patch while working up the release notes,
and I don't think it's right at all for this aspect:

> 1) For write() calls, sometimes the system may return less bytes than
> what has been written without errno being set.  Some paths were careful
> enough to consider that case, and assumed that errno should be set to
> ENOSPC, other calls missed that.

AFAICS, what you did about that was like this:

@@ -816,7 +828,12 @@ tar_close(Walfile f, WalCloseMethod method)
    if (!tar_data->compression)
    {
        if (write(tar_data->fd, tf->header, 512) != 512)
+       {
+           /* if write didn't set errno, assume problem is no disk space */
+           if (errno == 0)
+               errno = ENOSPC;
            return -1;
+       }
    }
 #ifdef HAVE_LIBZ
    else

That's not good enough, because there is no reason to suppose that errno
is initially zero; in reality it'll be whatever was left over from the
last failed syscall, perhaps far distant from here.  The places that do
this correctly do it like so:

        errno = 0;
        if (write(...) != expected-length)
        {
            /* if write didn't set errno, assume problem is no disk space */
            if (errno == 0)
                errno = ENOSPC;
            ...
        }

You need to go back and add the pre-clearing of errno in each of these
places, otherwise the added code is basically useless.

            regards, tom lane