Re: checking return value from unlink in write_relcache_init_file - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> On 2021-Jun-03, Tom Lane wrote:
>> If the unlink fails, there's only really a problem if the subsequent
>> open() fails to overwrite the file --- and that stanza is perfectly
>> capable of complaining for itself.  So I think the code is fine and
>> there's no need for a separate message about the unlink.  Refusing to
>> proceed, as you've done here, is strictly worse than what we have.

> It does seem to deserve a comment explaining this.

Agreed, the existing comment there is a tad terse.

            regards, tom lane