Re: Replace open mode with PG_BINARY_R/W/A macros - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 20.04.22 22:29, Tom Lane wrote:
> PG_BINARY is useful for open().  It's the PG_BINARY_R/W/A macros for
> fopen() that are redundant per POSIX.  Possibly someone generalized
> inappropriately; or maybe long ago we supported some platform that
> rejected the "b" option?

I think the latter was the case.  I doubt it's still a problem.

I see some of the new code in pg_basebackup uses "wb" directly.  It 
would probably be good to fix that to be consistent one way or the 
other.  I vote for getting rid of the macros.