Re: We should Axe /contrib/start-scripts - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: We should Axe /contrib/start-scripts
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Msg-id 25365.1251334960@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: We should Axe /contrib/start-scripts  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Has anyone heard of other contexts in which file locks don't
>> work?  Has Windows got them?

> Yes. But they are mandatory rather than advisory, I believe.

Probably wouldn't matter for our purposes?  I guess what we'd need is a
writer's lock that still allows other processes to read the file.
        regards, tom lane


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