Re: Fix for pg_upgrade discriptor leaks

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-03-09T02:59:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > I have applied the attached patch to fix pg_upgrade file descriptor
> > leaks in error paths.
> 
> It seems rather pointless to spend code closing descriptors immediately
> before a fatal exit.

Well, it is not before a fatal but rather before it returns -1, which
might fatal or might not.  I also had code in to close file descriptors
that was a little too tricky about using a single variable to indicate
two things so I cleaned it up.  I got a private email report about these
so obviously they were confusing.

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