Re: Re: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review]

2013-01-18 21:48 keltezéssel, Boszormenyi Zoltan írta:
> 2013-01-18 21:32 keltezéssel, Tom Lane írta:
>> Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at> writes:
>>> 2013-01-18 11:05 keltezéssel, Amit kapila írta:
>>>> On using mktemp, linux compilation gives below warning
>>>> warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp'
>>>>
>>>> So I planned to use mkstemp.
>>> Good.
>> On my HPUX box, the man page disapproves of both, calling them obsolete
>> (and this man page is old enough to vote, I believe...)

Then we have to at least consider what this old {p|s}age says... ;-)

>>
>> Everywhere else that we need to do something like this, we just use our
>> own PID to disambiguate, ie
>> sprintf(tempfilename, "/path/to/file.%d", (int) getpid());
>> There is no need to deviate from that pattern or introduce portability
>> issues, since we can reasonably assume that no non-Postgres programs are
>> creating files in this directory.
>
> Thanks for the enlightenment, I will post a new version soon.

Here it is.

Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi

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