Re: ReadBuffer() error checking

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ReadBuffer() error checking
Date: 2004-11-14 02:06:31
Message-ID: 4196BDA7.8070508@samurai.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Agreed. I get the impression that at one time it was not so, but
> certainly for the last many years there's been no need to test.

Patch applied.

> A related issue in the same general area is that the smgr code is
> currently implemented to elog on error, but its API still reflects
> an assumption that it will return a failure indication. Changing
> the API is a larger change than I want to see during late beta,
> but it's a cleanup that would be reasonable to undertake during
> a future development cycle, if you're interested.

Sure, I'll take a look at it once we branch for 8.0.

-Neil

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