Flight Log / neondatabase/neon #11835
Replace anyhow::Result with typed BlobWriterError in BlobWriter error path — a Devin (Cognition) bot flight
The Devin bot (Cognition) opened this pull request in neondatabase/neon on May 6, 2025; a burn — closed unmerged after human review: +564 −331, 11 files, 2 reviews.
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Devin was asked to replace anyhow::Result with a typed thiserror BlobWriterError on the BlobWriter error path in neondatabase/neon, a refactor across 11 files with 564 additions and 331 deletions over nine commits. Two reviews requested two changes, covering error conversion and the Cancelled message. The PR closed unmerged after human review, a burn.
“Use `map_err(anyhow::Error::new)` instead of `map_err(|e| anyhow::anyhow!(e))`. Don't use `error("flush task cancelled")` for the higher level `Cancelled` variants. Just `error("cancelled")` is good. Maybe we don't need”
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# Replace anyhow::Result with typed BlobWriterError in BlobWriter error path This PR replaces `anyhow::Result` on the BlobWriter error path with a typed `thiserror` error (`BlobWriterError`) that has two variants: - `Cancelled` - for when the layer flush task is cancelled - `Other(anyhow::Error)` -…
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