Re: Cannot cancel the change of a tablespace

From: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Cannot cancel the change of a tablespace
Date: 2010-06-23 21:29:29
Message-ID: 4C227CB9.5060103@lelarge.info
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Le 23/06/2010 22:54, Tom Lane a écrit :
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
>> <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
>>> I added a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS call in the copy_relation_data(),
>>> copy_dir(), and copy_file() functions. Works for me on ALTER TABLE ...
>>> SET TABLESPACE and ALTER DATABASE ... SET TABLESPACE, in 9.0 and 8.4.
>
>> Adding a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() to copy_relation_data seems like it
>> ought to be OK (though I haven't tested), but copydir() is in
>> src/port, and I fear that putting CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() in there
>> might cause problems.
>
> copydir.c is already backend-specific thanks to all the ereport calls.
> If we ever tried to make it usable in frontend code, we could easily
> deal with CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() via #ifndef FRONTEND --- changing the
> error management would be far more painful.
>

I'm not sure I get it right. Do I need to do something on the patch so
that it can get commited?

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Guillaume
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