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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Cc: bt23nguyent <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Improve the log message output of basic_archive when basic_archive.archive_directory parameter is not set
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2023 12:49:24 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On 2023-Sep-15, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:

> -basic_archive_configured(ArchiveModuleState *state)
> +basic_archive_configured(ArchiveModuleState *state, const char **errmsg)
> 
> The variable name errmsg implies that it will contain the errmsg() data when it
> in fact is used for errhint() data, so it should be named accordingly.
> 
> It's probably better to define the interface as ArchiveCheckConfiguredCB
> functions returning an allocated string in the passed pointer which the caller
> is responsible for freeing.

Also note that this callback is documented in archive-modules.sgml, so
that needs to be updated as well.  This also means you can't backpatch
this change, or you risk breaking external software that implements this
interface.

I suggest that 'msg' shouldn't be a global variable.  There's no need
for that AFAICS; but if there is, this is a terrible name for it.

-- 
Álvaro Herrera         PostgreSQL Developer  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/






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