Re: stderr & win32 admin check

I plan to resubmit this patch shortly (hopefully during the weekend)
including supprot for detecting if running as a service (and thus pick
eventlog support). From what I can tell, the rest should be Ok to go, so
expect a new one shortly.

//Magnus

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us]
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>Magnus, where are we on this refactoring process.
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>Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> >> * Created function write_stderr(const char *fmt, ...), used
>> >before elog
>> >> can be used. This function will write to stderr on unix
>and on win32
>> >> fconsole. It will write to the eventlog on win32 when running as a
>> >> service.
>> >> * Changed all (most? I think I got all) fprintf(stderr,...)
>> >to use this
>> >> function instead. That way, we gain the ability to put
>all the other
>> >> preivously-stderr-messages to the eventlog as well.
>> >
>> >I'm not sure this is a good idea. The remaining uses of stderr were
>> >that way for a reason, not because someone had forgot to change them
>> >into elog calls. It would be a lot less invasive to just move the
>> >privilege check as you originally intended.
>>
>>
>> I figured as long as nothing "dangerous" (e.g. using memory
>allocations
>> etc) is done in the function, it should be just as safe as
>fprintf. On
>> Unix, it does nothing more than a simple fprintf anyway (one call
>> deeper). The only difference in practice is that we can put
>them in the
>> eventlog on win32 (again, only using calls that are safe in this
>> context). If we do it the other way, we are going to lose these other
>> messages when running as a service on win32 (since we
>specifically are
>> not using ereport(), per what you say above).
>>
>> Also, this would remove the check so you could do initdb and other
>> operations that are blocked today (that don't go through
>postmaster.c)
>> when being root, I assumed that was not good either...
>>
>> //Magnus
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