Re: Pinned files at Windows

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Konstantin Knizhnik <k(dot)knizhnik(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Pinned files at Windows
Date: 2019-06-03 19:15:04
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYQ1P6WrT-td+8z904JWb2ePpu0abavAHOi4NbnDYO52w@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 3:25 AM Konstantin Knizhnik
<k(dot)knizhnik(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> wrote:
> If call of stat() is succeed, then my assumption is that the only reason
> of GetFileAttributesEx
> failure is that file is deleted and returning ENOENT error code in this
> case is correct behavior.

In my experience, the assumption "the only possible cause of an error
during X is Y" turns out to be wrong nearly 100% of the time. Our job
is to report the errors the OS gives us, not guess what they mean.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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