Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>> It looks like you are building in fortify mode? I tried that a while
>> ago and got a few more warnings. Are we trying to be fortify clean, and
>> if so, what is our approach?
>
> We're definitely *not* fortify-clean, although maybe trying to become so
> would be a good idea. From memory, what I have seen in past builds on
> Red Hat systems is a lot of warnings about ignoring the return value
> from fwrite() and related functions. Which might not be an unreasonable
> thing to try to get rid of, though I think many of the cases are in
> places where there's no useful recovery action to be taken anyway.
> (Whatcha gonna do if you fail to write the postmaster log ... try to
> log a complaint message?)
>
> In any case I agree that anything we try to do about this should be a
> system-wide effort not a one-line hack.
>
>> Also, considering my recent complaint about various brittleness in the
>> regression test driver, more well hidden ignorings of errors are not
>> exactly my favorite solution.
>
> +1
So. Should I revert it?
//Magnus