On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been digging around that, but could not find out any options
> that would delay the file deletion after it has been requested. As
> pg_basebackup grabs automatically all the files in PGDATA, I have as
> well tried to use thousands of dummy files up to 1MB, as well as huge
> files ("fsutil file createnew" is your friend), deleting them manually
> to force the stat() calls to be unhappy be still I could not reproduce
> it... If somebody has better ideas I am open.
Extra idea: patch win32_safestat() so as it continues to call stat()
in an infinite loop for a specific file that I manually created in
base/$DBOID until it fails with res < 0. Even that did not bump into
ERROR_DELETE_PENDING :)
--
Michael
