Re: Fix handling of invalid sockets returned by PQsocket() - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 1:58 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Michael Paquier wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> After looking at Alvaro's message mentioning the handling of
>> PQsocket() for invalid sockets, I just had a look by curiosity at
>> other calls of this routine, and found a couple of issues:
>> 1) In vacuumdb.c, init_slot() does not check for the return value of PQsocket():
>> slot->sock = PQsocket(conn);
>> 2) In isolationtester.c, try_complete_step() should do the same.
>> 3) In pg_recvlogical.c for StreamLogicalLog() I am spotting the same problem.
>> I guess those ones should be fixed as well, no?
>
> I patched pgbench to use PQerrorMessage rather than strerror(errno).  I
> think your patch should do the same.

OK, this looks like a good idea. I would suggest doing the same in
receivelog.c then.
--
Michael