Re: BUG #4958: Stats collector hung on WaitForMultipleObjectsEx while attempting to recv a datagram

Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of s=C3=A1b ago 25 00:10:57 -0400 201=
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> > It looks sane to me in a quick once-over (bearing in mind I can't tes=
t
> > it).  What's bothering you about the ereport calls?
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> Well, 9.1 currently has:
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> errmsg_internal("failed to enumerate network events: %i", (int) GetLast=
Error()))
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> Prior to your patch, master had:
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> errmsg_internal("failed to enumerate network events: error code %lu",
> GetLastError())
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> And you changed it to:
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> elog(ERROR, "failed to enumerate network events: error code %u",
> WSAGetLastError())
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> So obviously there's a conflict there.  In the previously-posted
> version, I chose to just take your version, but I'm not sure whether
> it would be better -- in the back branches -- to simply replace
> GetLastError() with WSAGetLastError() and leave it alone otherwise.

Note that for translations none of this matters, because
errmsg_internal() does not mark its argument for translation, and
neither does elog().

The change of %i to "error code %lu" was done recently (during 9.2 devel
cycle) to make all error messages involving GetLastError() consistent;
see commit 1af55e275.

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=C3=81lvaro Herrera                http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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