Re: [PATCH] Make pg_basebackup configure and start standby [Review] - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Boszormenyi Zoltan
Subject Re: [PATCH] Make pg_basebackup configure and start standby [Review]
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Msg-id 50ADF93C.2090009@cybertec.at
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In response to Re: [PATCH] Make pg_basebackup configure and start standby [Review]  (Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb@cybertec.at>)
Responses Re: [PATCH] Make pg_basebackup configure and start standby [Review]  (Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb@cybertec.at>)
Re: [PATCH] Make pg_basebackup configure and start standby [Review]  (Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb@cybertec.at>)
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Hi,

2012-11-21 18:39 keltezéssel, Boszormenyi Zoltan írta:
> 2012-11-21 15:29 keltezéssel, Tom Lane írta:
>> Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb@cybertec.at> writes:
>>> pg_basebackup needs pg_malloc() to call disconnect_and_exit(1)
>>> instead to quit cleanly and not leave an "unexpected EOF from client"
>>> message in the server log. Which is a macro at the moment, but
>>> has to be turned into a real function for the reasons below.
>> man 2 atexit
>
> It doesn't really help to make it easier. E.g: pg_strdup() in psql does this:
>
> char *
> pg_strdup(const char *string)
> {
>         char       *tmp;
>
>         if (!string)
>         {
>                 psql_error("%s: pg_strdup: cannot duplicate null pointer (internal
> error)\n",
>                                 pset.progname);
>                 exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
>         }
>         tmp = strdup(string);
>         if (!tmp)
>         {
>                 psql_error("out of memory\n");
>                 exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
>         }
>         return tmp;
> }
>
> The function passed to atexit() still needs to know which string to print
> and this needs an internal variable. Also, the actions taken on pg_malloc/pg_strdup
> errors don't produce the exact same messages.
>
> This is why I suggest the attached 03-pg_malloc-unified-v2.patch.
>
> The 04-tarutils-v2.patch unifies the common tar functions and the string functions
> like print_val() used by _tarCreateHeader (previously _tarWriteHeader) and
> escape_quotes().

The PQconninfo patch grew its own mail thread (this is why
there's no 1st patch in this series now) and I reworked the order
of the patches to make it more logical.  This made the pg_basebackup
patch 5K smaller.

Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi

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