| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | jtv(at)xs4all(dot)nl |
| Cc: | pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Error handling fix in interfaces/libpq/fe-secure.c |
| Date: | 2005-07-06 13:55:38 |
| Message-ID: | 25699.1120658138@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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jtv(at)xs4all(dot)nl writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> The gettext function does not modify the value of the global errno
>> variable. This is necessary to make it possible to write something like
>>
>> printf (gettext ("Operation failed: %m\n"));
>>
>> which is pretty much what I expected to find. Ergo, this entire
>> discussion is wrong, and whatever bug you are concerned about will
>> not be solved this way.
> Tom, I didn't know that gettext() preserved errno--but I still believe
> you're wrong. The problem is not gettext() but libpq_gettext(). The
> latter calls the former, but it may go through initialization first--which
> would still pollute errno on the first call.
Good point --- we should make it save and restore errno around the
bindtextdomain() call. Will do.
regards, tom lane
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