Re: pgwin32_open returning EINVAL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 12/20/07, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:

> ereport(WARNING,
>     (errmsg("could not open file \"%s\": %s violation", fileName,
>           (GetLastError() ==
> ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION)?_("sharing"):_("lock")),
>          errdetail("Continuing to retry for 30 seconds."),
>          errhint("You may have antivirus, backup or similar software
> interfering with the database.")));

Without looking myself, is it possible for errhint() or errdetail() to
do something that affects GetLastError()? It's like errno, checking it
very far away from the call site makes me nervous.