Re: Small race in pg_xlogdump --follow

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> Oh, right, at the very last loop. I've never seen it need more than 1 loop
> so I didn't manage to hit that codepath :) But yeah, saving errno and
> restoring it on the other side of pg_usleep is probably a good idea.

Right.  On a larger scale --- I'm too uncaffeinated to figure out whether
this is the code path taken for the initially user-supplied file name.
But it would be unfriendly if when you fat-finger the command line
arguments, it takes 5 seconds for pg_xlogdump to tell you so.  Maybe
the looping behavior should only happen on non-first file access.