Re: pgwin32_open returning EINVAL

From: "Trevor Talbot" <quension(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Magnus Hagander" <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD" <Andreas(dot)Zeugswetter(at)s-itsolutions(dot)at>, "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Gregory Stark" <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgwin32_open returning EINVAL
Date: 2007-12-20 12:47:33
Message-ID: 90bce5730712200447w381aba01x9c02204d7dd37e37@mail.gmail.com
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On 12/20/07, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 04:39:55AM -0800, Trevor Talbot wrote:
> > On 12/20/07, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:

> > > ereport(WARNING,
> > > (errmsg("could not open file \"%s\": %s violation", fileName,
> > > (GetLastError() ==
> > > ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION)?_("sharing"):_("lock")),
> > > errdetail("Continuing to retry for 30 seconds."),
> > > errhint("You may have antivirus, backup or similar software
> > > interfering with the database.")));

> > Without looking myself, is it possible for errhint() or errdetail() to
> > do something that affects GetLastError()? It's like errno, checking it
> > very far away from the call site makes me nervous.

> I guess, but it shouldn't matter. We're giong to loop right back up and do a
> new CreateFile() after this, which will overwrite it again.

I mean for the purposes of the report. I'm worried the message might
say it's a lock violation when it's really a sharing violation.

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