Re: pg_dump, gzwrite, and errno

On 2020-Jun-18, Tom Lane wrote:

> Surely it's insufficient as-is, because there is no reason to suppose
> that errno is zero at entry.  You'd need to set errno = 0 first.

Oh, right.

> Also it's fairly customary in our sources to include a comment about
> this machination; so the full ritual is usually more like

Yeah, I had that in my local copy.  Done like that in all the most
obvious places.  But there are more places that are still wrong: I
believe every single place that calls WRITE_ERROR_EXIT is doing the
wrong thing.

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