Re: refactoring basebackup.c (zstd workers)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, Dipesh Pandit <dipesh(dot)pandit(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Jeevan Ladhe <jeevanladhe(dot)os(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, "Shinoda, Noriyoshi (PN Japan FSIP)" <noriyoshi(dot)shinoda(at)hpe(dot)com>, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)toroid(dot)org>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jeevan Ladhe <jeevan(dot)ladhe(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Mark Dilger <mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, tushar <tushar(dot)ahuja(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: refactoring basebackup.c (zstd workers)
Date: 2022-03-21 01:32:45
Message-ID: 1765519.1647826365@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I think I'm guilty of verbal inexactitude here but not bad coding.
> Checking for *endptr != '\0', as I did, is not sufficient to detect
> "whether an error occurred," as I alleged. But, in the part of my
> response you didn't quote, I believe I made it clear that I only need
> to detect garbage, not out-of-range values. And I think *endptr !=
> '\0' will do that.

Hmm ... do you consider an empty string to be valid input?

regards, tom lane

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