Re: Disaster!

Randolf Richardson <rr(at)8x(dot)ca> writes:
> "gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu (Greg Stark)" stated in
> comp.databases.postgresql.hackers:
>> The traditional Unix filesystems certainly don't return errors at close.

> Why shouldn't the close() function return an error? If an invalid
> file handle was passed to it, it most certainly should indicate this

Of course. We're discussing the situation where no errors were reported
in prior syscalls --- in particular, open() succeeded.

regards, tom lane