Re: where should I stick that backup? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: where should I stick that backup?
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Msg-id CA+TgmobTsO6ehqhqU7ggSVKDOX+ZD+5-6cSfDWRN88XFy8KB6A@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: where should I stick that backup?  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Responses Re: where should I stick that backup?  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 2:06 PM Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> * Robert Haas (robertmhaas@gmail.com) wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 1:05 PM Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> > > What if %f.bz2 already exists?
> >
> > That cannot occur in the scenario I described.
>
> Of course it can.

Not really. The steps I described involved creating a new directory.
Yeah, in theory, somebody could inject a file into that directory
after we created it and before bzip writes any files into it, but
pg_basebackup already has the exact same race condition.

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Robert Haas
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