| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>, Pgsql hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Fwd: Re: A new look at old NFS readdir() problems? |
| Date: | 2025-01-06 14:20:18 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoZdxsnA81pADXuoMJZzPd9oWp+w-D253+RnObyY_OqjrQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 3:15 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> To expand on that: I've now found that Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
> and illumos/OpenIndiana[1] pass that test. I don't believe that Windows
> does NFS. That means that FreeBSD is the only one of our supported
> platforms that fails. I think we should simply document that NFS on
> FreeBSD is broken, and await somebody getting annoyed enough to
> fix that brokenness.
Yeah, that seems like very strong evidence against FreeBSD, but I
think Thomas Munro's point about CIFS is worth considering. That is
rather widely used, and if the same workarounds would help both that
and FreeBSD's NFS, we might want to adopt it even if it's not a
complete fix.
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Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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