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From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: fix pg_mkdir_p to tolerate concurrent directory creation
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Msg-id 27f45133-4a6f-45f1-8937-bda963029462@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: fix pg_mkdir_p to tolerate concurrent directory creation  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: fix pg_mkdir_p to tolerate concurrent directory creation
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On 2026-06-19 Fr 11:07 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Actually ... given this change, why don't we drop the initial stat()
> call?  Just try mkdir(), and move on if it succeeds.  If not, but
> there's already a directory there, we're good.  That eliminates the
> race condition without duplicating code.


LGTM, thanks!


cheers


andrew


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