Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> The point being that the config files are opened with AllocateFile(),
>>> which in turn calls fopen(). It doesn't use open(). The proposal was
>>> only to make all *open()* calls do it binary. I was under the impression
>>> that on Unix, that's what open() did, so we should behave the same?
>>>
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>> That seems just weird. I do not think there's any correlation between
>> whether we use open or fopen and whether the file is text or binary.
>> Even if it happens to be true right now, depending on it would be
>> fragile.
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> I agree. If you really want something like that you should invent
> OpenConfigFile() or some such. But it hardly seems worth it.
Well, the AllocateFile() API already has the ability to specify if it's
a text file or not (using the fopen syntax).
And given that we have a way to specify it for open (PG_BINARY), we can
just leave it that way I guess. Even if we end up always specifying
PG_BINARY, that may keep things less fragile. As long as we remember to
specify it. (PG_BINARY is a no-op on all other platforms than Windows,
btw, because there is no way to specify anything other than binary mode
for open() on Unix)
//Magnus