Re: drop tablespace error: invalid argument - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: drop tablespace error: invalid argument
Date
Msg-id 13833.1251649455@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: drop tablespace error: invalid argument  (Jan Otto <asche@me.com>)
Responses Re: drop tablespace error: invalid argument  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Jan Otto <asche@me.com> writes:
> The bug in readdir() appeared in the final snow leopard too. Anybody
> with Snow Leopard installed can check this, with simply doing the
> regression tests (make check). The tablespace regression test is
> failing.

> The patch i sent in works around the issue. if it is not acceptable to
> reread the tablespace-directory after every delete i can rewrite the
> workaround.  Probably it is preferred that we write all entries of the
> directory into an array and looping through that array after that
> instead of looping with ReadDir()?

I'm not really eager to put in a workaround for such a basic OS bug,
especially not when the odds are good that it'll be fixed in 10.6.1.
Let's wait a little bit for Apple to get their act together.
        regards, tom lane


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