Thread: Cannot initdb in cvs tip
I'm getting the following error when trying to initdb with CVS tip. This is on win XP, though I don't know if it's win32 specific. Also of note, although it says it's clearing the contents of the directory, in actual fact it leaves the directory structure in place, thus a subsequent initdb will not run without a manual clearup. Regards, Dave. $ initdb The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "dpage". This user must also own the server process. The database cluster will be initialized with locale English_United Kingdom.1252 . fixing permissions on existing directory C:/msys/1.0/local/pgsql/data ... ok creating directory C:/msys/1.0/local/pgsql/data/global ... ok creating directory C:/msys/1.0/local/pgsql/data/pg_xlog ... ok creating directory C:/msys/1.0/local/pgsql/data/pg_clog ... ok creating directory C:/msys/1.0/local/pgsql/data/base ... ok creating directory C:/msys/1.0/local/pgsql/data/base/1 ... ok creating directory C:/msys/1.0/local/pgsql/data/pg_tablespaces ... ok selecting default max_connections ... 100 selecting default shared_buffers ... 1000 creating configuration files ... ok creating template1 database in C:/msys/1.0/local/pgsql/data/base/1 ... ERROR: could not open segment 1 of relation 1663/1/1255 (target block 26189776): No such file or directory Deleted file - C:\msys\1.0\local\pgsql\data\pg_hba.conf Deleted file - C:\msys\1.0\local\pgsql\data\pg_ident.conf Deleted file - C:\msys\1.0\local\pgsql\data\PG_VERSION Deleted file - C:\msys\1.0\local\pgsql\data\postgresql.conf Deleted file - C:\msys\1.0\local\pgsql\data\base\1\1255 Deleted file - C:\msys\1.0\local\pgsql\data\global\pg_control Deleted file - C:\msys\1.0\local\pgsql\data\pg_clog\0000 Deleted file - C:\msys\1.0\local\pgsql\data\pg_xlog\0000000000000000 child process was terminated by signal 1 initdb.exe: failed initdb.exe: removing contents of data directory "C:/msys/1.0/local/pgsql/data" $
"Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:
> I'm getting the following error when trying to initdb with CVS tip.
> creating template1 database in C:/msys/1.0/local/pgsql/data/base/1 ...
> ERROR: could not open segment 1 of relation 1663/1/1255 (target block
> 26189776): No such file or directory
The target block number is obviously broken :-(. But maybe you have
a build consistency problem --- did you try a make distclean and full
rebuild?
> although it says it's clearing the contents of the directory, in actual
> fact it leaves the directory structure in place, thus a subsequent
> initdb will not run without a manual clearup.
Hm. The rmtree() function in initdb.c is responsible for this, and
I see it has WIN32-specific behavior, which is evidently wrong.
Can you recommend a fix?
regards, tom lane
Tom Lane said: > "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes: >> I'm getting the following error when trying to initdb with CVS tip. > >> creating template1 database in C:/msys/1.0/local/pgsql/data/base/1 ... >> ERROR: could not open segment 1 of relation 1663/1/1255 (target block >> 26189776): No such file or directory > > The target block number is obviously broken :-(. But maybe you have a > build consistency problem --- did you try a make distclean and full > rebuild? > >> although it says it's clearing the contents of the directory, in >> actual fact it leaves the directory structure in place, thus a >> subsequent initdb will not run without a manual clearup. > > Hm. The rmtree() function in initdb.c is responsible for this, and I > see it has WIN32-specific behavior, which is evidently wrong. > Can you recommend a fix? > You can use the builtin one I wrote originally (and tested quite a bit) that doesn't depend on system() calls ;-) cheers andrew
> -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] > Sent: Sat 6/19/2004 12:21 AM > To: Dave Page > Cc: PostgreSQL-development > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip > The target block number is obviously broken :-(. But maybe you have > a build consistency problem --- did you try a make distclean and full > rebuild? No, I was having trouble keeping my eyes open by then. I'll give it a go tonight. > Hm. The rmtree() function in initdb.c is responsible for this, and > I see it has WIN32-specific behavior, which is evidently wrong. > Can you recommend a fix? I'll take a look at this. Regards, Dave
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
> Sent: 19 June 2004 00:22
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: PostgreSQL-development
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip
>
> "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:
> > I'm getting the following error when trying to initdb with CVS tip.
>
> > creating template1 database in
> C:/msys/1.0/local/pgsql/data/base/1 ...
> > ERROR: could not open segment 1 of relation 1663/1/1255
> (target block
> > 26189776): No such file or directory
>
> The target block number is obviously broken :-(. But maybe
> you have a build consistency problem --- did you try a make
> distclean and full rebuild?
OK, that cured that one - thanks.
> > although it says it's clearing the contents of the directory, in
> > actual fact it leaves the directory structure in place, thus a
> > subsequent initdb will not run without a manual clearup.
>
> Hm. The rmtree() function in initdb.c is responsible for
> this, and I see it has WIN32-specific behavior, which is
> evidently wrong.
> Can you recommend a fix?
The current solution does an "rmdir /q /s $PGDATA" if the datadir was
created, and "del /q /s $PGDATA" if the directory already existed. The
second case will not work, as del will not remove directories. AFAICS,
there is no easy way to do this using system() as rmdir won't accept
wildcards, so we can't do "del $PGDATA/* && rmdir $PGDATA/*".
It seems to me that the simple answer is to put Andrew's recursive
unlink code back in (as he suggested), which Bruce removed as rm etc.
were being used in commands/dbcommands.c (which should work fine under
Windows). Patch below....
Regards, Dave
*** initdb.c.orig Sat Jun 19 22:15:28 2004
--- initdb.c Sat Jun 19 23:02:10 2004
***************
*** 132,137 ****
--- 132,144 ----
static void *xmalloc(size_t size);
static char *xstrdup(const char *s);
static bool rmtree(char *path, bool rmtopdir);
+
+ #ifdef WIN32
+ static int init_unlink(const char *);
+ #else
+ #define init_unlink(x) unlink( (x) )
+ #endif /* WIN32 */
+
static char **replace_token(char **lines, char *token, char
*replacement);
static char **readfile(char *path);
static void writefile(char *path, char **lines);
***************
*** 245,264 ****
static bool
rmtree(char *path, bool rmtopdir)
{
! char buf[MAXPGPATH + 64];
! #ifndef WIN32
! /* doesn't handle .* files, but we don't make any... */
! snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "rm -rf \"%s\"%s", path,
! rmtopdir ? "" : "/*");
! #else
! snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%s /s /q \"%s\"",
! rmtopdir ? "rmdir" : "del", path);
! #endif
! return !system(buf);
}
/*
* make a copy of the array of lines, with token replaced by
replacement
--- 252,349 ----
static bool
rmtree(char *path, bool rmtopdir)
{
! char filepath[MAXPGPATH];
! DIR *dir;
! struct dirent *file;
! char **filenames;
! char **filename;
! int numnames = 0;
! struct stat statbuf;
! /*
! * we copy all the names out of the directory before we start
modifying
! * it.
! *
! */
!
! dir = opendir(path);
! if (dir == NULL)
! return false;
! while ((file = readdir(dir)) != NULL)
! {
! if (strcmp(file->d_name, ".") != 0 &&
strcmp(file->d_name, "..") != 0)
! numnames++;
! }
!
! rewinddir(dir);
!
! filenames = xmalloc((numnames + 2) * sizeof(char *));
! numnames = 0;
!
! while ((file = readdir(dir)) != NULL)
! {
! if (strcmp(file->d_name, ".") != 0 &&
strcmp(file->d_name, "..") != 0)
! filenames[numnames++] = xstrdup(file->d_name);
! }
!
! filenames[numnames] = NULL;
!
! closedir(dir);
!
! /* now we have the names we can start removing things */
!
! for (filename = filenames; *filename; filename++)
! {
! snprintf(filepath, MAXPGPATH, "%s/%s", path, *filename);
!
! if (stat(filepath, &statbuf) != 0)
! return false;
!
! if (S_ISDIR(statbuf.st_mode))
! {
! /* call ourselves recursively for a directory */
! if (!rmtree(filepath, true))
! return false;
! }
! else
! {
! if (init_unlink(filepath) != 0)
! return false;
! }
! }
!
! if (rmtopdir)
! {
! if (rmdir(path) != 0)
! return false;
! }
!
! return true;
}
+ #ifdef WIN32
+
+ /* workaround for win32 unlink bug, not using logging like in
port/dirmod.c */
+
+ /* make sure we call the real unlink from MSVCRT */
+
+ #ifdef unlink
+ #undef unlink
+ #endif
+
+ static int
+ init_unlink(const char *path)
+ {
+ while (unlink(path))
+ {
+ if (errno != EACCES)
+ return -1;
+ Sleep(100); /* ms */
+ }
+ return 0;
+ }
+ #endif /* WIN32 */
/*
* make a copy of the array of lines, with token replaced by
replacement
On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 08:04, Dave Page wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
> > Sent: 19 June 2004 00:22
> > To: Dave Page
> > Cc: PostgreSQL-development
> > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip
> >
> > "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:
> > > I'm getting the following error when trying to initdb with CVS tip.
> >
> > > creating template1 database in
> > C:/msys/1.0/local/pgsql/data/base/1 ...
> > > ERROR: could not open segment 1 of relation 1663/1/1255
> > (target block
> > > 26189776): No such file or directory
> >
> > The target block number is obviously broken :-(. But maybe
> > you have a build consistency problem --- did you try a make
> > distclean and full rebuild?
>
> OK, that cured that one - thanks.
>
> > > although it says it's clearing the contents of the directory, in
> > > actual fact it leaves the directory structure in place, thus a
> > > subsequent initdb will not run without a manual clearup.
> >
> > Hm. The rmtree() function in initdb.c is responsible for
> > this, and I see it has WIN32-specific behavior, which is
> > evidently wrong.
> > Can you recommend a fix?
>
> The current solution does an "rmdir /q /s $PGDATA" if the datadir was
> created, and "del /q /s $PGDATA" if the directory already existed. The
> second case will not work, as del will not remove directories. AFAICS,
> there is no easy way to do this using system() as rmdir won't accept
> wildcards, so we can't do "del $PGDATA/* && rmdir $PGDATA/*".
>
> It seems to me that the simple answer is to put Andrew's recursive
> unlink code back in (as he suggested), which Bruce removed as rm etc.
> were being used in commands/dbcommands.c (which should work fine under
> Windows). Patch below....
>
you could of course rmdir /s /q $PGDATA && mkdir $PGDATA if the purpose
is to leave the directory intact if it already existed prior to install.
Regards,
John
> Regards, Dave
>
> *** initdb.c.orig Sat Jun 19 22:15:28 2004
> --- initdb.c Sat Jun 19 23:02:10 2004
> ***************
> *** 132,137 ****
> --- 132,144 ----
> static void *xmalloc(size_t size);
> static char *xstrdup(const char *s);
> static bool rmtree(char *path, bool rmtopdir);
> +
> + #ifdef WIN32
> + static int init_unlink(const char *);
> + #else
> + #define init_unlink(x) unlink( (x) )
> + #endif /* WIN32 */
> +
> static char **replace_token(char **lines, char *token, char
> *replacement);
> static char **readfile(char *path);
> static void writefile(char *path, char **lines);
> ***************
> *** 245,264 ****
> static bool
> rmtree(char *path, bool rmtopdir)
> {
> ! char buf[MAXPGPATH + 64];
>
> ! #ifndef WIN32
> ! /* doesn't handle .* files, but we don't make any... */
> ! snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "rm -rf \"%s\"%s", path,
> ! rmtopdir ? "" : "/*");
> ! #else
> ! snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%s /s /q \"%s\"",
> ! rmtopdir ? "rmdir" : "del", path);
> ! #endif
>
> ! return !system(buf);
> }
>
>
> /*
> * make a copy of the array of lines, with token replaced by
> replacement
> --- 252,349 ----
> static bool
> rmtree(char *path, bool rmtopdir)
> {
> ! char filepath[MAXPGPATH];
> ! DIR *dir;
> ! struct dirent *file;
> ! char **filenames;
> ! char **filename;
> ! int numnames = 0;
> ! struct stat statbuf;
>
> ! /*
> ! * we copy all the names out of the directory before we start
> modifying
> ! * it.
> ! *
> ! */
> !
> ! dir = opendir(path);
> ! if (dir == NULL)
> ! return false;
>
> ! while ((file = readdir(dir)) != NULL)
> ! {
> ! if (strcmp(file->d_name, ".") != 0 &&
> strcmp(file->d_name, "..") != 0)
> ! numnames++;
> ! }
> !
> ! rewinddir(dir);
> !
> ! filenames = xmalloc((numnames + 2) * sizeof(char *));
> ! numnames = 0;
> !
> ! while ((file = readdir(dir)) != NULL)
> ! {
> ! if (strcmp(file->d_name, ".") != 0 &&
> strcmp(file->d_name, "..") != 0)
> ! filenames[numnames++] = xstrdup(file->d_name);
> ! }
> !
> ! filenames[numnames] = NULL;
> !
> ! closedir(dir);
> !
> ! /* now we have the names we can start removing things */
> !
> ! for (filename = filenames; *filename; filename++)
> ! {
> ! snprintf(filepath, MAXPGPATH, "%s/%s", path, *filename);
> !
> ! if (stat(filepath, &statbuf) != 0)
> ! return false;
> !
> ! if (S_ISDIR(statbuf.st_mode))
> ! {
> ! /* call ourselves recursively for a directory */
> ! if (!rmtree(filepath, true))
> ! return false;
> ! }
> ! else
> ! {
> ! if (init_unlink(filepath) != 0)
> ! return false;
> ! }
> ! }
> !
> ! if (rmtopdir)
> ! {
> ! if (rmdir(path) != 0)
> ! return false;
> ! }
> !
> ! return true;
> }
>
> + #ifdef WIN32
> +
> + /* workaround for win32 unlink bug, not using logging like in
> port/dirmod.c */
> +
> + /* make sure we call the real unlink from MSVCRT */
> +
> + #ifdef unlink
> + #undef unlink
> + #endif
> +
> + static int
> + init_unlink(const char *path)
> + {
> + while (unlink(path))
> + {
> + if (errno != EACCES)
> + return -1;
> + Sleep(100); /* ms */
> + }
> + return 0;
> + }
> + #endif /* WIN32 */
>
> /*
> * make a copy of the array of lines, with token replaced by
> replacement
>
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John Hansen said: > On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 08:04, Dave Page wrote: >> > > although it says it's clearing the contents of the directory, in >> > > actual fact it leaves the directory structure in place, thus a >> > > subsequent initdb will not run without a manual clearup. >> > >> > Hm. The rmtree() function in initdb.c is responsible for >> > this, and I see it has WIN32-specific behavior, which is >> > evidently wrong. >> > Can you recommend a fix? >> >> The current solution does an "rmdir /q /s $PGDATA" if the datadir was >> created, and "del /q /s $PGDATA" if the directory already existed. The >> second case will not work, as del will not remove directories. >> AFAICS, there is no easy way to do this using system() as rmdir won't >> accept wildcards, so we can't do "del $PGDATA/* && rmdir $PGDATA/*". >> >> It seems to me that the simple answer is to put Andrew's recursive >> unlink code back in (as he suggested), which Bruce removed as rm etc. >> were being used in commands/dbcommands.c (which should work fine under >> Windows). Patch below.... >> > > you could of course rmdir /s /q $PGDATA && mkdir $PGDATA if the purpose > is to leave the directory intact if it already existed prior to > install. > No we can't. This was discussed months ago, IIRC. The user might very well not have the privileges necessary to delete the directory, and might not have the privileges to recreate it if they do. The direct recursive delete is not a lot of code, and I must confess I *hate* having C programs calling system() for such tasks. One of my goals in rewriting initdb in C was to avoid any calls at all to any external program other than postgres itself. cheers andrew
-----Original Message----- From: John Hansen [mailto:john@geeknet.com.au] Sent: Sun 6/20/2004 2:27 AM To: Dave Page Cc: Tom Lane; PostgreSQL-development; pgsql-patches@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip > you could of course rmdir /s /q $PGDATA && mkdir $PGDATA if the purpose > is to leave the directory intact if it already existed prior to install. Permissions may not allow you to do that. Regards, Dave
Seems it might be time to address this and get it fixed. Win32 doesn't clean up the directory structure under /data and leave /data unchanged, and there is no way to do this with a system() command on Win32. I resisted adding a C version of rmtree during Win32 development because I was concerned about disturbing the Unix behavior, but at this point I think we should just move ahead and add a /port function for this and remove the system() backend and initdb calls to 'rm' for directories. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Dunstan wrote: > John Hansen said: > > On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 08:04, Dave Page wrote: > >> > > although it says it's clearing the contents of the directory, in > >> > > actual fact it leaves the directory structure in place, thus a > >> > > subsequent initdb will not run without a manual clearup. > >> > > >> > Hm. The rmtree() function in initdb.c is responsible for > >> > this, and I see it has WIN32-specific behavior, which is > >> > evidently wrong. > >> > Can you recommend a fix? > >> > >> The current solution does an "rmdir /q /s $PGDATA" if the datadir was > >> created, and "del /q /s $PGDATA" if the directory already existed. The > >> second case will not work, as del will not remove directories. > >> AFAICS, there is no easy way to do this using system() as rmdir won't > >> accept wildcards, so we can't do "del $PGDATA/* && rmdir $PGDATA/*". > >> > >> It seems to me that the simple answer is to put Andrew's recursive > >> unlink code back in (as he suggested), which Bruce removed as rm etc. > >> were being used in commands/dbcommands.c (which should work fine under > >> Windows). Patch below.... > >> > > > > you could of course rmdir /s /q $PGDATA && mkdir $PGDATA if the purpose > > is to leave the directory intact if it already existed prior to > > install. > > > > No we can't. This was discussed months ago, IIRC. The user might very well > not have the privileges necessary to delete the directory, and might not > have the privileges to recreate it if they do. > > The direct recursive delete is not a lot of code, and I must confess I > *hate* having C programs calling system() for such tasks. One of my goals > in rewriting initdb in C was to avoid any calls at all to any external > program other than postgres itself. > > cheers > > andrew > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@postgresql.org > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073
Dave, now that we are nearing beta, I think we need to correct the
initdb problem with removing the directory on Win32. Would you code
this up as something that sits in /port/dirmod.c and have both initdb
and DROP DATABASE call the C routine rather than call rm -r/rmdir? (I
think those are the only two. DROP TABLESPACE?)
I wanted to keep a solution that was as native to the OS as possible,
but because we can't do that on Win32 and few people like the unix
system call to 'rm', it is time to clean it up.
One question --- why is there a sleep loop needed for unlink in your
patch?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dave Page wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
> > Sent: 19 June 2004 00:22
> > To: Dave Page
> > Cc: PostgreSQL-development
> > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip
> >
> > "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:
> > > I'm getting the following error when trying to initdb with CVS tip.
> >
> > > creating template1 database in
> > C:/msys/1.0/local/pgsql/data/base/1 ...
> > > ERROR: could not open segment 1 of relation 1663/1/1255
> > (target block
> > > 26189776): No such file or directory
> >
> > The target block number is obviously broken :-(. But maybe
> > you have a build consistency problem --- did you try a make
> > distclean and full rebuild?
>
> OK, that cured that one - thanks.
>
> > > although it says it's clearing the contents of the directory, in
> > > actual fact it leaves the directory structure in place, thus a
> > > subsequent initdb will not run without a manual clearup.
> >
> > Hm. The rmtree() function in initdb.c is responsible for
> > this, and I see it has WIN32-specific behavior, which is
> > evidently wrong.
> > Can you recommend a fix?
>
> The current solution does an "rmdir /q /s $PGDATA" if the datadir was
> created, and "del /q /s $PGDATA" if the directory already existed. The
> second case will not work, as del will not remove directories. AFAICS,
> there is no easy way to do this using system() as rmdir won't accept
> wildcards, so we can't do "del $PGDATA/* && rmdir $PGDATA/*".
>
> It seems to me that the simple answer is to put Andrew's recursive
> unlink code back in (as he suggested), which Bruce removed as rm etc.
> were being used in commands/dbcommands.c (which should work fine under
> Windows). Patch below....
>
> Regards, Dave
>
> *** initdb.c.orig Sat Jun 19 22:15:28 2004
> --- initdb.c Sat Jun 19 23:02:10 2004
> ***************
> *** 132,137 ****
> --- 132,144 ----
> static void *xmalloc(size_t size);
> static char *xstrdup(const char *s);
> static bool rmtree(char *path, bool rmtopdir);
> +
> + #ifdef WIN32
> + static int init_unlink(const char *);
> + #else
> + #define init_unlink(x) unlink( (x) )
> + #endif /* WIN32 */
> +
> static char **replace_token(char **lines, char *token, char
> *replacement);
> static char **readfile(char *path);
> static void writefile(char *path, char **lines);
> ***************
> *** 245,264 ****
> static bool
> rmtree(char *path, bool rmtopdir)
> {
> ! char buf[MAXPGPATH + 64];
>
> ! #ifndef WIN32
> ! /* doesn't handle .* files, but we don't make any... */
> ! snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "rm -rf \"%s\"%s", path,
> ! rmtopdir ? "" : "/*");
> ! #else
> ! snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%s /s /q \"%s\"",
> ! rmtopdir ? "rmdir" : "del", path);
> ! #endif
>
> ! return !system(buf);
> }
>
>
> /*
> * make a copy of the array of lines, with token replaced by
> replacement
> --- 252,349 ----
> static bool
> rmtree(char *path, bool rmtopdir)
> {
> ! char filepath[MAXPGPATH];
> ! DIR *dir;
> ! struct dirent *file;
> ! char **filenames;
> ! char **filename;
> ! int numnames = 0;
> ! struct stat statbuf;
>
> ! /*
> ! * we copy all the names out of the directory before we start
> modifying
> ! * it.
> ! *
> ! */
> !
> ! dir = opendir(path);
> ! if (dir == NULL)
> ! return false;
>
> ! while ((file = readdir(dir)) != NULL)
> ! {
> ! if (strcmp(file->d_name, ".") != 0 &&
> strcmp(file->d_name, "..") != 0)
> ! numnames++;
> ! }
> !
> ! rewinddir(dir);
> !
> ! filenames = xmalloc((numnames + 2) * sizeof(char *));
> ! numnames = 0;
> !
> ! while ((file = readdir(dir)) != NULL)
> ! {
> ! if (strcmp(file->d_name, ".") != 0 &&
> strcmp(file->d_name, "..") != 0)
> ! filenames[numnames++] = xstrdup(file->d_name);
> ! }
> !
> ! filenames[numnames] = NULL;
> !
> ! closedir(dir);
> !
> ! /* now we have the names we can start removing things */
> !
> ! for (filename = filenames; *filename; filename++)
> ! {
> ! snprintf(filepath, MAXPGPATH, "%s/%s", path, *filename);
> !
> ! if (stat(filepath, &statbuf) != 0)
> ! return false;
> !
> ! if (S_ISDIR(statbuf.st_mode))
> ! {
> ! /* call ourselves recursively for a directory */
> ! if (!rmtree(filepath, true))
> ! return false;
> ! }
> ! else
> ! {
> ! if (init_unlink(filepath) != 0)
> ! return false;
> ! }
> ! }
> !
> ! if (rmtopdir)
> ! {
> ! if (rmdir(path) != 0)
> ! return false;
> ! }
> !
> ! return true;
> }
>
> + #ifdef WIN32
> +
> + /* workaround for win32 unlink bug, not using logging like in
> port/dirmod.c */
> +
> + /* make sure we call the real unlink from MSVCRT */
> +
> + #ifdef unlink
> + #undef unlink
> + #endif
> +
> + static int
> + init_unlink(const char *path)
> + {
> + while (unlink(path))
> + {
> + if (errno != EACCES)
> + return -1;
> + Sleep(100); /* ms */
> + }
> + return 0;
> + }
> + #endif /* WIN32 */
>
> /*
> * make a copy of the array of lines, with token replaced by
> replacement
>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] > Sent: 28 July 2004 09:29 > To: Dave Page > Cc: Tom Lane; PostgreSQL-development; pgsql-patches@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip > > > Dave, now that we are nearing beta, I think we need to > correct the initdb problem with removing the directory on > Win32. Would you code this up as something that sits in > /port/dirmod.c and have both initdb and DROP DATABASE call > the C routine rather than call rm -r/rmdir? (I think those > are the only two. DROP TABLESPACE?) I'm pretty busy right now and can't guarantee I'll even be able to look at this until Friday (I spent the last 2 days on pg stuff so need to do some other things at work :-( ). If anyone has more time please shout, otherwise I'll get to this as soon as I can. > I wanted to keep a solution that was as native to the OS as > possible, but because we can't do that on Win32 and few > people like the unix system call to 'rm', it is time to clean it up. Yup. > One question --- why is there a sleep loop needed for unlink > in your patch? I don't know - which leads me nicely onto point out that it's not my patch :-) I think it was Andrew that orginally wrote it - I just created the patch to put it back in after it was removed. Regards, Dave.
Dave Page wrote: > > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] >>Sent: 28 July 2004 09:29 >>To: Dave Page >>Cc: Tom Lane; PostgreSQL-development; pgsql-patches@postgresql.org >>Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip >> >> >>Dave, now that we are nearing beta, I think we need to >>correct the initdb problem with removing the directory on >>Win32. Would you code this up as something that sits in >>/port/dirmod.c and have both initdb and DROP DATABASE call >>the C routine rather than call rm -r/rmdir? (I think those >>are the only two. DROP TABLESPACE?) >> >> > >I'm pretty busy right now and can't guarantee I'll even be able to look >at this until Friday (I spent the last 2 days on pg stuff so need to do >some other things at work :-( ). If anyone has more time please shout, >otherwise I'll get to this as soon as I can. > > > >>I wanted to keep a solution that was as native to the OS as >>possible, but because we can't do that on Win32 and few >>people like the unix system call to 'rm', it is time to clean it up. >> >> > >Yup. > > > >>One question --- why is there a sleep loop needed for unlink >>in your patch? >> >> > >I don't know - which leads me nicely onto point out that it's not my >patch :-) I think it was Andrew that orginally wrote it - I just created >the patch to put it back in after it was removed. > > > > I will try to get a patch out today. IIRC, the Sleep came from the code I stole from somewhere else - but I will revisit the whole thing. cheers andrew
Bruce Momjian wrote: >Dave, now that we are nearing beta, I think we need to correct the >initdb problem with removing the directory on Win32. Would you code >this up as something that sits in /port/dirmod.c and have both initdb >and DROP DATABASE call the C routine rather than call rm -r/rmdir? (I >think those are the only two. DROP TABLESPACE?) > > The small wrinkle here is that rmtree needs to make a copy of the file names before it starts removing things. In the backend case that means calling palloc() and friends - am I correct in assuming it is reasonable to do this in whatever context happens to be current when rmtree is called? (I promise to make it clean up nicely). >I wanted to keep a solution that was as native to the OS as possible, >but because we can't do that on Win32 and few people like the unix >system call to 'rm', it is time to clean it up. > >One question --- why is there a sleep loop needed for unlink in your >patch? > > > > We will just be calling the existing pgunlink() (which has a sleep) in the Windows cases, so this question becomes moot. cheers andrew
Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >I wanted to keep a solution that was as native to the OS as possible, > >but because we can't do that on Win32 and few people like the unix > >system call to 'rm', it is time to clean it up. > > > >One question --- why is there a sleep loop needed for unlink in your > >patch? > > > > > > > > > > We will just be calling the existing pgunlink() (which has a sleep) in > the Windows cases, so this question becomes moot. Great. Thanks. Sorry I delayed addressing this for so long. Should we look at replacing cp/copy in 7.6? -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> The small wrinkle here is that rmtree needs to make a copy of the file
> names before it starts removing things. In the backend case that means
> calling palloc() and friends - am I correct in assuming it is reasonable
> to do this in whatever context happens to be current when rmtree is
> called?
Sure.
regards, tom lane