Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> [ looks at code... ] dbcommands.c is expecting that rmtree() will have
>> printed out a more-detailed message about the problem, but someone has
>> carefully removed every trace of error reporting from rmtree().
> I think the issue is that we didn't want different object files for
> client and server output message and and returning error codes and
> having every calling location print strings was unmaintainable.
But we already bit that bullet. Look at the other routines in dirmod.c:
#ifndef FRONTEND ereport(ERROR, (errcode_for_file_access(), errmsg("Error setting
junctionfor %s: %s", nativeTarget, msg)));
#else fprintf(stderr, "Error setting junction for %s: %s\n", nativeTarget, msg);
#endif
It's certainly not realistic to pass back enough information from
rmtree() to let the caller print a useful error message, so I think
we have to add reporting code along this line to rmtree().
regards, tom lane