>>> I understand your disliking of non-posix stuff. OTOH,

>>GetLastError will
>>> give much more details than errno.
>>
>>How much more, really?  That mapping table gave me the impression that
>>the win32 error codes aren't all that much more detailed than errno...
>
>The mapping table is not complete. My winerror.h from the SDK
>lists 2209
>error codes, whereas errno.h lists 42...
>
>I still don't think we'll get that much more stuff. Right now,
>the Win32
>code paths that actually use the more advanced functions already write
>out the error number in case something happens. We can keep doing that
>for the other paths (ereport the error *number* when the mapping does
>not have a match). The map to errno will catch almost all cases, I
>think. And in the corner cases we can do with just the number, and use
>"net helpmsg" to get the actual message when checking...

Here's an attempt on this. new file goes in backend/port/win32.

Magnus Hagander

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/include/port/win32.h b/src/include/port/win32.h
index 6a70bcc095..bd2e69c043 100644
--- a/src/include/port/win32.h
+++ b/src/include/port/win32.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/port/win32.h,v 1.27 2004/07/23 01:58:36 momjian Exp $ */
+/* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/port/win32.h,v 1.28 2004/08/29 00:38:03 momjian Exp $ */
 
 /* undefine and redefine after #include */
 #undef mkdir
@@ -147,6 +147,9 @@ extern int pgwin32_is_admin(void);
 extern int pgwin32_is_service(void);
 #endif
 
+/* in backend/port/win32/error.c */
+void _dosmaperr(unsigned long);
+
 
 #define WEXITSTATUS(w)  (((w) >> 8) & 0xff)
 #define WIFEXITED(w)    (((w) & 0xff) == 0)
@@ -222,3 +225,4 @@ int setitimer(int which, const struct itimerval *value, struct itimerval *ovalue
 #define ECONNREFUSED WSAECONNREFUSED
 #define EBADFD WSAENOTSOCK
 #define EOPNOTSUPP WSAEOPNOTSUPP
+