Re: Re: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review]

2013-01-18 21:32 keltezéssel, Tom Lane írta:
> Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at> writes:
>> 2013-01-18 11:05 keltezéssel, Amit kapila írta:
>>> On using mktemp, linux compilation gives below warning
>>> warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp'
>>>
>>> So I planned to use mkstemp.
>> Good.
> On my HPUX box, the man page disapproves of both, calling them obsolete
> (and this man page is old enough to vote, I believe...)
>
> Everywhere else that we need to do something like this, we just use our
> own PID to disambiguate, ie
> sprintf(tempfilename, "/path/to/file.%d", (int) getpid());
> There is no need to deviate from that pattern or introduce portability
> issues, since we can reasonably assume that no non-Postgres programs are
> creating files in this directory.

Thanks for the enlightenment, I will post a new version soon.

>
> regards, tom lane
>
>

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