Re: BUG #13774: upgrade from 9.1 to 9.4 'succeeds' without enough disk space

Thanks for the quick fix, Bruce. Much appreciated.

Manu

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:bruce@momjian.us]
Sent: zaterdag 14 november 2015 17:48
To: manu@coopapotheken.be
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [BUGS] BUG #13774: upgrade from 9.1 to 9.4 'succeeds' without
enough disk space

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 08:24:02PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Thank you for the report.  This is embarrassing, but the code was
> testing for the wrong return value on Windows.  We used a macro to
> define the same symbol on Windows and Unix (pg_copy_file), but for
> Windows, we should have been testing for zero, while the code only
> tested for a -1 return failure.  You can see the Windows failure zero
> return value defined here:
>
>
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363851%28v=
> vs.85%29.aspx
>
>     Return value
>
>     If the function succeeds, the return value is nonzero.
>     If the function fails, the return value is zero. To get extended
error
>     information, call GetLastError.
>
> We do something similar for hard links, but we create a wrapper
> function to return the proper value (-1), and we call it twice, so it
> seems wise to keep that unchanged.
>
> The attached patch fixes this and will be applied to all active
> branches in the next minor release.  Sorry for the bug.

Patch applied and backpatched through 9.1.

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