| From: | Giles Lean <giles(at)nemeton(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | Kevin Brown <kevin(at)sysexperts(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: On file locking |
| Date: | 2003-01-31 05:03:22 |
| Message-ID: | 4676.1043989402@nemeton.com.au |
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> This could be cleaned up rather dramatically if we were to use one of
> the file locking primitives supplied by the OS to grab an exclusive
> lock on the file, ...
> ...
> The first question for the group is: is it worth doing that?
In the past it has been proposed and declined -- there is some stuff
in the archives. While it would be beneficial to installations using
local data it would introduce new failure modes for installations
using NFS.
Regards,
Giles
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