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

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: DROP DATABASE vs patch to not remove files right away
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Msg-id 20080416005025.GJ4429@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to DROP DATABASE vs patch to not remove files right away  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: DROP DATABASE vs patch to not remove files right away  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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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.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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