> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> It would be interesting to know the actual underlying Windows
> error
> >> code
> >> --- I see that win32error.c maps several different codes to
> EACCES.
> 
> > It may be a good idea to put a elog(LOG) with the error code in
> the
> > failure path of AllocateFile.
> 
> That seems like a plan to me.  I had been thinking of making
> win32error.c itself log the conversions, but that would not provide
> any context information.  AllocateFile could log the file name
> along with the code, which should be enough info to associate a
> particular log entry with the actual failure.
> 
> Note you should probably save and restore errno around the elog
> call, just to be safe.
> 
> Could someone with access to Windows code and test this?

Do you mean something as simple as this?

compiles, passes regression tests, logs this on startup of a fresh
cluster:
LOG:  win32 open error on 'global/pgstat.stat': 2

(very simple - it's a file-not-found, which is expected..)


//Magnus

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