Re: pgwin32_open returning EINVAL

On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 04:20:23PM +0100, Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD wrote:
> 
> > > Yeah, I think it would be useful to log one message if after (say) 5
> > > seconds we still haven't been able to open the file.
> > 
> > Either that, or on the first run.
> 
> Imho 1-5s is better, so that would be after the 10-50th try.

Ok, so I'll put in a warning after 50 tries.


> > loop. It's supposed to loop 300 times.
> 
> Yes.
>  
> > > (Are we OK with the idea of sleeping 1 second each time?)
> > 
> > I think not. 0.1 seconds is better. We don't want to delay a full
> second if
> > it's just a transient thing.
> 
> Yes 0.1 s is imho good. Btw. m$ is talking about milliseconds
> (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316609) 

Their sample code sleeps for 0.25 seconds though. (Sleep() takes
milliseconds). So we're definitely fine with 0.1sec I think.

//Magnus