Re: Atomic rename feature for Windows. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Atomic rename feature for Windows.
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Msg-id CA+TgmoZeMB1U-8Kv_90NJMR4yQLsHiaUQGkVTzr=N5N70tZ1eg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Atomic rename feature for Windows.  (Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>)
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On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 11:45 AM Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> wrote:
> But that's useful for some things and not for others. Like, it's
> useful to be sure we don't have odd dependencies on timing quirks of
> the specific machines that are currently common, or depend on gcc/llvm
> compiler behaviour that isn't guaranteed. But less so for supporting
> some quirky filesystem behaviour on Windows 8 that newer Windows
> doesn't have and Unix guarantees not to have. (Or supporting non-IEEE
> Vax FP now that we've decided we just don't any more).

Yeah, exactly.

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Robert Haas
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