| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Mike Mascari <mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Win32 rename()/unlink() questions |
| Date: | 2002-09-20 14:27:52 |
| Message-ID: | 16067.1032532072@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> writes:
> ... let you do the replace and keep reading (at the penalty that
> you've now got to have a way to know when to remove the
> various <something>s)
That is the hard part. Mike's description omitted one crucial step:
6. The old "foo" goes away when the last open file handle for it is
closed.
I doubt there is any practical way for Postgres to cause that to happen
if the OS itself does not have any support for it.
regards, tom lane
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