(2018/11/17 8:10), Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
>> I'm not quite sure whether the reached_eof test should be
>> "if (bytesread == 0)" or "if (bytesread< maxread)". The former
>> seems more certain to indicate real EOF; are there other cases where
>> the fread might return a short read? On the other hand, if we
>> support in-band EOF indicators (\. for instance) then we might
>> stop without having made an extra call to CopyGetData that would
>> see bytesread == 0. On the third hand, if we do do that it's
>> not quite clear to me whether SIGPIPE is ignorable or not.
>
> After still further thought, it seems like "if (bytesread == 0)"
> is the right way to proceed. That protects us against incorrectly
> setting reached_eof if the pipe is being run in unbuffered or
> line-buffered mode. (Which copy.c doesn't do, at the moment,
> but I'd just as soon this code didn't need to assume that.
> Also, I'm not 100% convinced that Windows or other platforms
> might not act that way.)
> So I think this version is probably good, although maybe it could
> use an additional comment explaining the above reasoning.
I agree that it's better to keep the BeginCopyFrom API as-is. Also, I
think your version would handle SIGPIPE in COPY FROM PROGRAM more
properly than what I proposed. So, +1 from me.
Thanks!
Best regards,
Etsuro Fujita