Re: BUG #5166: readdir() failure on Mac OS-X is HFS "feature"

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Stephen Tyler" <stephen(at)stephen-tyler(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #5166: readdir() failure on Mac OS-X is HFS "feature"
Date: 2009-11-05 15:10:07
Message-ID: 20422.1257433807@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Stephen Tyler" <stephen(at)stephen-tyler(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane replied:
> This is a known bug in Snow Leopard --- readdir() calls fail after having
> deleted a file in the directory. We are hoping that Apple fixes it in
> 10.6.2, because trying to kluge around it seems like a mess.

> 2) It appears to be a "feature" of HFS on OS-X, rather than a "bug":
> http://support.apple.com/kb/TA21420?viewlocale=en_US

Please notice that that document refers to 10.0. If it's not a Snow
Leopard bug, why has the behavior changed from every prior OSX release?

regards, tom lane

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