Re: Cascading replication on Windows bug - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Cascading replication on Windows bug
Date
Msg-id 7432.1346880525@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Cascading replication on Windows bug  (Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>)
Responses Re: Cascading replication on Windows bug
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Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> writes:
> That doesn't work on Windows. As long as a walsender is keeping the old 
> file open, the unlink() on it fails. You get an error like this in the 
> startup process:
> FATAL:  could not rename file "pg_xlog/RECOVERYXLOG" to 
> "pg_xlog/00000001000000000000000D": Permission denied

I thought we had some workaround for that problem.  Otherwise, you'd be
seeing this type of failure every time a checkpoint tries to drop or
rename files.
        regards, tom lane



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