Re: pgwin32_safestat weirdness

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgwin32_safestat weirdness
Date: 2008-04-13 23:06:21
Message-ID: 480291ED.6030609@dunslane.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> In libpq, it's only used in one place to check if a file is present,
>> and one then in the SSL code to determine permissions and such (which
>> means it's being ignored on win32).
>>
>
> Maybe we could finess the problem by tweaking libpq to not use stat()
> at all on Windows.
>
>
>

I would be quite happy with that, but before we go down that path I'd
like to know why the MSVC builds aren't failing now from this when the
MinGW builds are.

cheers

andrew

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