Expect EWOULDBLOCK from a non-blocking connect() call only on Windows.
On Unix-ish platforms, EWOULDBLOCK may be the same as EAGAIN, which is
*not* a success return, at least not on Linux. We need to treat it as a
failure to avoid giving a misleading error message. Per the Single Unix
Spec, only EINPROGRESS and EINTR returns indicate that the connection
attempt is in progress.
On Windows, on the other hand, EWOULDBLOCK (WSAEWOULDBLOCK) is the expected
case. We must accept EINPROGRESS as well because Cygwin will return that,
and it doesn't seem worth distinguishing Cygwin from native Windows here.
It's not very clear whether EINTR can occur on Windows, but let's leave
that part of the logic alone in the absence of concrete trouble reports.
Also, remove the test for errno == 0, effectively reverting commit
da9501bddb42222dc33c031b1db6ce2133bcee7b, which AFAICS was just a thinko;
or at best it might have been a workaround for a platform-specific bug,
which we can hope is gone now thirteen years later. In any case, since
libpq makes no effort to reset errno to zero before calling connect(),
it seems unlikely that that test has ever reliably done anything useful.
Andres Freund and Tom Lane
Branch
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REL9_0_STABLE
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a5380bd65bead48d049089dcbb50b35d00bf25f2
Modified Files
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src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
