Re: DROP DATABASE vs patch to not remove files right away - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think that it should be coded
>> to ignore ENOENT the same as the bgwriter does, and that it should press
>> on and keep trying to delete things even if it gets a failure.

> Perhaps, if it gets ENOENT, record this fact -- and after rmtree
> returns, retry the whole thing.

Er, retry what?  There was, presumably, nothing to delete.
        regards, tom lane