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This fixes two sets of issues related to the use of transient files in the backend: 1) OpenTransientFile() has been used in some code paths with read-write flags while read-only is sufficient, so switch those calls to be read-only where necessary. These have been reported by Joe Conway. 2) When opening transient files, it is up to the caller to close the file descriptors opened. In error code paths, CloseTransientFile() gets called to clean up things before issuing an error. However in normal exit paths, a lot of callers of CloseTransientFile() never actually reported errors, which could leave a file descriptor open without knowing about it. This is an issue I complained about a couple of times, but never had the courage to write and submit a patch, so here we go. Note that one frontend code path is impacted by this commit so as an error is issued when fetching control file data, making backend and frontend to be treated consistently. Reported-by: Joe Conway, Michael Paquier Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Georgios Kokolatos, Joe Conway Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190301023338.GD1348@paquier.xyz Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c49b69ec-e2f7-ff33-4f17-0eaa4f2cef27@joeconway.com
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