Re: pg_archivecleanup bug

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 09:13:28PM +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 03/18/2014 09:04 PM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> >On 18 March 2014 18:55, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> >
> >>That said, I don't find comma expression to be particularly "not
> >>simple".
> >
> >Maybe, but we've not used it before anywhere in Postgres, so I don't
> >see a reason to start now. Especially since C is not the native
> >language of many people these days and people just won't understand
> >it.
>
> Agreed. The psqlODBC code is littered with comma expressions, and
> the first time I saw it, it took me a really long time to figure out
> what "if (foo = malloc(...), foo) { } " meant. And I consider myself
> quite experienced with C.

I can see how the comma syntax would be confusing, though it does the
job well.  Attached is a patch that does the double-errno.  However,
some of these loops are large, and there are 'continue' calls in there,
causing the addition of many new errno locations.  I am not totally
comfortable that this new coding layout will stay unbroken.

Would people accept?

    for (errno = 0; (dirent = readdir(dir)) != NULL; errno = 0)

That would keep the errno's together and avoid the 'continue' additions.

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