Re: pg_dump -Ft failed on Windows XP

Am Donnerstag, 20. April 2006 13:21 schrieb Magnus Hagander:
> It's not buggy. It's well documented behaviour,and per my linux manpage
> for the file it's also OK per spec:
>
> The standard does not specify the directory that tmpfile()
> will use. Glibc will try the path prefix P_tmpdir defined
> in <stdio.h>, and if that fails the directory /tmp.

The spec says

The tmpfile() function shall create a temporary file and open a
corresponding stream. The file shall be automatically deleted when all
references to the file are closed. The file is opened as in fopen() for
update (w+).

If the implementation is such that it tries to create the file in a directory
that the user does not have write permission to, it's a bug.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/