Re: Fwd: Re: A new look at old NFS readdir() problems? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Fwd: Re: A new look at old NFS readdir() problems?
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Msg-id 572149.1735978551@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Fwd: Re: A new look at old NFS readdir() problems?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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I wrote:
> I wouldn't have any problem with saying that we don't support NFS
> implementations that don't have stable cookies.  But so far I haven't
> found any supported platform except FreeBSD that fails the rmtree test
> against my Synology NAS.

To expand on that: I've now found that Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
and illumos/OpenIndiana[1] pass that test.  I don't believe that Windows
does NFS.  That means that FreeBSD is the only one of our supported
platforms that fails.  I think we should simply document that NFS on
FreeBSD is broken, and await somebody getting annoyed enough to
fix that brokenness.

            regards, tom lane

[1] Getting OpenIndiana to work under qemu is not a task for those
easily discouraged.



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