Jan Otto <asche@me.com> writes:
>>> ERROR: could not read directory "pg_tblspc/16464": Invalid argument
>>> STATEMENT: DROP TABLESPACE testspace;
>>
>> Hmm ... can't reproduce this here, not even on OSX. From the version
>> number I suspect you are using unreleased Snow Leopard. I'd venture
>> it's a newly-introduced kernel bug and you need to talk to Apple about
>> it.
> Thank you Tom. I will file a bugreport at Apple.
Hey Jan, did you get any response to that bug report? Somebody else
dug up a document suggesting that this might be intentional on Apple's
part:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-11/msg00040.php
If he's right, we have a nontrivial problem here :-(
regards, tom lane