Re: [Patch] pg_rewind: options to use restore_command from recovery.conf or command line

On 2020-Mar-11, Michael Paquier wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 12:39:53PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Another option is to return the command as a palloc'ed string (per
> > psprintf), instead of using a caller-stack-allocated variable. Passing
> > the buffer len is widely used, but more error prone (and I think getting
> > this one wrong might be more catastrophic than a mistake elsewhere.)
> > This is not a performance-critical path enough that we *need* the
> > optimization that avoids the palloc is important. (Failure can be
> > reported by returning NULL.)
>
> That's a better approach here.

Thanks, looks good. I don't think we *need* the MAXPGPATH restriction
really -- I was thinking in a StringInfo kind of approach where you just
append the stuff you need without having to think about the buffer
length.

> > Also, I think Msvcbuild.pm could follow Makefile's ideas of one line per
> > file. Maybe no need to fix all of that in this patch, but let's start
> > by adding the new file it its own line rather than reflowing two
> > adjacent lines (oh wait ... does perltidy put it that way? if so,
> > nevermind.)
>
> Good idea. It happens that perltidy does not care about that, but I
> would rather keep that stuff for a separate patch/thread.

Aha, good. I would still put the new "archive.c" entry on its own line,
and just keep the other two lines unchanged. (That preserves the
perhaps non-obvious property that all entries that start with the same
letter are in the same line.)

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