Re: stat() vs ERROR_DELETE_PENDING, round N + 1 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
> A disruptive solution that works in my tests: we could reuse the
> global barrier proposed in CF #2962.  If you see EACCES, ask every
> backend to close all vfds at their next CFI() and wait for them all to
> finish, and then retry.  If you get EACCES again it really means
> EACCES, but you'll very probably get ENOENT.

That seems quite horrid :-(.  But if it works, doesn't that mean that
somewhere we are opening a problematic file without the correct
sharing flags?

            regards, tom lane