The following bug has been logged on the website:
Bug reference: 11882
Logged by: david gauchard
Email address: gauchard@laas.fr
PostgreSQL version: 9.4beta2
Operating system: linux
Description:
Hi,
This define "HAVE_WORKING_LINK" should not be always enabled. On systems
that support (and surely use) hard links FS, postgresql might be used on a
subFS not supporting it.
In the sources, the comment is (from git's
src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c):
3373 * Prefer link() to rename() here just to be really sure that we
don't
3374 * overwrite an existing logfile. However, there shouldn't be one,
so
3375 * rename() is an acceptable substitute except for the truly
paranoid.
My thinking is that you may add a '--paranoid' option to use hardlink
instead of rename, or, at least, an option (--relax ?) to disable this
behaviour and use a regular rename() instead.
Just a thought.
david
